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INVENTED VERSUS CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES [Contacts] ----Please CLICK on underlined categories for detail [to search for Subject Matter, depress
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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). |