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| INVENTED VERSUS CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES [Contacts] ----Please CLICK on underlined categories for detail [to search for Subject Matter, depress
  Ctrl/F ]:             There are repeated references to
  languages having been invented by linguists over the millennia and by Roman
  Catholic clergy since the 6th Century.  It might be better to refer to most of these as “Constructed”,
  “Modified,” or "Developed."  It is doubtful that linguists
  could have eliminated many aboriginal words from the ancient languages.             In the
  case of modern Basque, virtually all words starting with
  “Vowel-Consonant-Vowel” (VCV) are
  invented, not modified or developed. They form almost exactly half of the
  Basque vocabulary. The other half was probably inherited from the languages
  spoken in Neolithic and Paleolithic times. Originally the VCV half was in the
  tightly controlled domain of the clergy, that's why it did not change in
  5,000 years. Then a time came that the VCV half was released by the clergy
  and mixed with the Neolithic language to become modern Basque, not
  very long ago, probably 500 years at most (Edo Nyland,
  pers. commun.). This probably happened because it had been the Basque
  grammarians, working for the Benedictines, who created the Indo-European
  languages.  By that time, the average
  Benedictine monks could no longer speak the native Saharan
  Language.  The Neolithic half
  was always in the domain of the people and subject to change or modification.
  However, this change was kept at a minimum because the pre-literate peoples had
  professional storytellers going from tribe to tribe, who insisted on
  maintaining the original language and word order. The Dravidian
  languages must be the product of modification of Neolithic Saharan Language over time. These do not have the
  VCV vocabulary (See:  Igbo Language).   |