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THEORY
OF LANGUAGE FORMATION Erich Fred Legner [Contacts]
----Please CLICK on desired underlined categories [to search for Subject Matter, depress Ctrl/F ]: The efforts of Edo Nyland in translating
ancient inscriptions have brought forth the development of a theory on the
origin of languages. Nyland proposed
that the first language be called "Saharan" although later
Catherine Acholonu of the Igbo culture in West Africa brought forth the realization
that the Igbo language predated Saharan.
The main hypotheses and theory are shown as follows: [Also see Linguistics
& Human Migrations & Language & African Prehistory].
This work
explains from whence the first developed language originated and how it
spread to other parts of the world.
For example, the central Asian Aryans' colonization of India brought
with it the area's first language, which probably derived from Saharan
but time naturally changed it to Sanskrit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hypothesis 1: The Saharan Language was the language
of the peoples living in the Sahara during the last Ice Age. They had created the first true
civilization on earth, possibly centered in West Africa south of lake Chad.
As a result of deglaciation, starting about 16,000 bce., resulting in ever expanding
desertification, these tribes were forced to flee for their lives, creating
an exodus culminating between 7,000 and 3,500 bce (see Climate).
These refugees created four main secondary civilizations in Mesopotamia,
Egypt, the Indus Valley and Anatolia.
[The Saharan language was predated by a West African or Igbo
Language: see Catherine Acholonu]
[Please also see Evolution of Human Languages and The Indo-Europeans
and the Concept of Language Families] |
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For further
detail, please refer to:
Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: An
Introduction. Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada.
ISBN 1-55212-668-4. 541 p. [ see abstract & summary]
Nyland, Edo. 2002. Odysseus and the
Sea Peoples: A
Bronze Age History of Scotland Trafford Publ., Victoria,