LANGUAGE
& HUMAN MIGRATIONS
The following derived from:
Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction. Trafford Publ., Victoria, B.C., Canada.
ISBN 1-55212-668-4. 541 p.
Edo Nyland (2001) has proposed a
theory for the formation of many languages.
As this is a very large topic, it requires an organizational chart.. A
simple way to arrange this still growing number of languages and associated
information is to break them up into six groups: Early languages, Asiatic
languages, West European, East European, North American and Assorted.
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underlined categories to view:
HYPOTHESES RELATED TO THE THEORY
Hypothesis 1: The Saharan language was the language of the peoples living in
the Sahara during the last Ice Age, who had created the first true
civilization on earth, possibly centered on 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.
Hypothesis 2: Portions of the Saharan
Language (an offshoot of the Igbo Language) are still spoken as Dravidian in India (170
million speakers), as Ainu on the island of Hokkaido (about 18,000 speakers in 2017) and as
Basque in Euskadi, Spain (800,000 speakers in 2017). Basque is likely the
closest resembling the original language of the exodus.
Hypothesis 3: The people of the exodus from the Sahara brought with them a
matrilineal organized society, the nature based Goddess religion and the
first highly developed language, maintained by very strong oral traditions.
Hypothesis 4: As a result of several major advances in a number of fields
such as agriculture, metallurgy, domestication of the horse and camel,
astronomy etc. the female-based religion was weakened and male domination
arrived ca 3,000 bce. in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and about 1,500
bce. in India. The newcomers brought along learned priesthoods who proceeded
to invert all aspects of the old religion, society, language, legends etc. A
new language was invented for each large area and
placed under the control of a king.
Examples are, Sumerian and Akadian in Mesopotamia, Old Egyptian in Egypt, Sanskrit and Hindi in
India, Hebrew in Palestine, Hittite and Luvian in Anatolia etc. All these were
the product of formulaic distortion and scholarly manipulation of the
original Saharan language. The Bible repeats the command to distort the
original language in Genesis 11:7.
Hypothesis 5: These newly created languages were then introduced to the local
populations by taking young boys into residential schools and forcing the new
order onto them, where they were often brutally treated. The purpose was to
destroy the old religion and language and the traditional oral teaching of
wisdom, religion and legends, replacing it with a patriarchal vision of the
world and civilization. They almost succeeded. The hidden sentences in the
invented words can be decoded) with the use of the Basque dictionary and a simple formula
(see Saharan Language).
Theory:
Nyland (2001) proposed that all highly
developed languages on earth (except possibly Chinese and some other Oriental
languages) might have been developed from the original Saharan language, which in
itself was also scholarly enhanced from the Neolithic substratum. There
exists no "family" of Indo-European or Semitic languages. There are
no Indo-European or proto-Indo-European languages. Scholars invented all these unstable
languages. Only Saharan has remained relatively unchanged and is now spoken as
Basque.
[Please also see Evolution of Human Languages]
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