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CLASSIFYING THE
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INTRODUCTION
Starting during the 18th century,
attempts have been made to classify the world's languages into one
comprehensive genetic system of families. This effort has been very
frustrating for many linguists because organizing languages into such a
system has been like playing a game of musical chairs. Major languages were
shifted from one language family to another, whole families were bundled into
super families on very shaky assumptions, proto languages were concocted,
others were split off and given their own family tree. Faulty reasoning and
dreaming resulted in some of these assumptions to be accepted as gospel and
given credibility by contrived systems of phonological correspondence,
created by an obsessive group of linguists known as the Neo-Grammarians.
The best-known example of this is the theory of the Indo-European
Family of languages that is based on the crippled reasoning
that if the observed relationship between the languages is not accidental, it
must be genetic. Most of the Neo-Grammarians' inventions have long ago been
put into the dustbin, but what remains of them is taken as evidence that
modern linguistics in some important sense is still to be considered as a
science. It now appears that modern linguistics is solidly founded on
religion and not on academic substance. In a desperate attempt to make
some sense out of the profusion of languages, linguists have been searching
for the "Mother
Tongue", also called "Proto-World". This initiative
is now considered a most controversial contrivance in linguistic circles.
Many linguists shy away from attempting to re-construct the ancestral
language, calling such attempts speculative and sensational. The much quoted
Dr. Vitaly Shevoroshkin (U. of Michigan) is a great supporter of the
"Mother Tongue" theory and he assumes that "most words are
stable and change very little, ....... words such as body parts have been
with us from the beginning". This assumption could have been correct
except for one small problem; during the past 4,000 years some of the major
religions have put linguists to work, subjecting languages they wanted to be
rid of to acrostic manipulation and mutilation. Their efforts were aimed at
totally burying the original language of the world's first civilization, in
many cases with the use of a strictly adhered to formula which now allows us
to reconstruct the origin of the concocted words. Hundreds, if not thousands,
of these fabricated words are shown in Edo Nyland’s web pages (see Pages). Their
efforts have resulted in a very large number of invented languages, which on
first sight have no relationship to the original language, but upon detailed
examination can be shown to have originated from the ancient Saharan
language. If it hadn't been for the drastic and intensive efforts of the
ancient grammarians, a few genetic trees of languages would likely have done
the job. Through the years, there have been
a few courageous doubters among the linguists such as M. E. Landsberg (Columbia
Univ. S.C.) who wrote: "Indeed, courses in historical linguistics at
Universities all over the world, in spite of much perplexing evidence to
the contrary, mostly still persist in adhering to strict Indo-European
theories". Those who did not follow the Indo-European gospel and sounded
the alarm bell risked their immaculate academic reputations by indulging in
what was called "Trans Linguistic Investigations," resulting in being censored by
the dogma-ridden majority that still rules the discipline. Students are
forbidden to study the possible academic fraud behind the Indo-European
theory and those who did look into it were stonewalled, isolated and
ridiculed. Doubting the Indo-European theory became "taboo" and
resulted in a quick forced exit from the profession. One professor to whom I
explained my findings commented: "You are excavating recesses into which
an academic with the instincts of a gentleman, would never venture". Is
it surprising that this subject of invented linguistics is so much unexplored?
THE SAHARAN
LANGUAGE
The height of the Ice Age came
about 16,000 bce. and was followed by rapid deglaciation which created
enormous changes in air-circulation over large parts of the world. Hardest
hit was North Africa where a dense population, spread over many independent
tribes, had developed since about 38,000 bce The effect of this global
weather change caused serious desertification that started to be felt around
10,000 bce. (See Climate).
The tribes occupying the Central Sahara had to adapt to ever
increasing drought conditions. It is now obvious that the Sahara had been the
location of the first true civilization on earth. It had a highly developed
religion based on holy respect for the wondrous reproductive and nursing
capabilities of the human female, a fully evolved language, a democratically
organized and disciplined system of tribal groups, a strong oral tradition
and a number of sciences such as astronomy, mathematics, architecture,
agriculture, irrigation technology, leather tanning, boat building, sailing
and star navigation. For thousands of years the tribes living along the
shores, later called the "Sea Peoples", had been sailing and
fishing on the oceans. Surplus population had been sent to colonize the lands
of Europe that had been vacated by the glaciers. However, the forced exodus,
which started after 6,000 bce.., meant that all tribes had to move away from
the most affected areas in the center. These were being ferried by the
"Sea Peoples" to available lands that had previously been explored
by them around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They of course brought
their religion, language and oral traditions along with them. The language
was astonishingly complex and all encompassing for such an early Stone Aged
people. In fact, it seems highly unlikely that this amazing Saharan language
was formed naturally from the basic onomatopoeic language, which is embedded
in it. Like the complex astronomical and mathematical knowledge of these
people, their language was so well-organized and logical that it must have
been the product of highly qualified linguists, even at that very early date.
For details about this language invention, see "Translating Ogam". Therefore,
Nyland has called the Saharan language the first highly evolved and invented
language on earth. FIRST LEVEL INVENTED LANGUAGE
There is no way to tell when the Saharan
language was brought up to this high level of linguistic proficiency, but it
may well have been done before 10,000 bce. The most likely place where this
could have been done was in the religious center of the Goddess in the Ahoggar Mountain massif in southeastern Algiers. By
that time, the demand for leather sails had outstripped the available supply
in the Sahara and a large hunting camp had been established on the migration
route of a huge reindeer herd in Arctic Norway, at a place now called Mount
Komsa. Petroglyphs, cut into the rock at Mount Komsa, tell an interesting
story because they are very much like the drawings on stone at the 7,000-foot
level in the Ahoggar Mountains as well as being similar to some of the art in
the caves of the Pyrenees. The huge exodus from the Sahara
started in earnest about 7,000 bce., reaching a peak between 5- and 6,000
bce. This extremely mobile civilization was familiar with the entire world.
Refugees went to many countries, all maintaining their Goddess religion,
their strong oral traditions and their language. While still in the Sahara
these traditions had been centrally reinforced from the Ahoggar, now that the
population was mostly shifted to Europe and the Near East, the religious
center was moved to Malta,
which was accessible to all tribes of the Atlantic coast, the Mediterranean
and the Black Sea. The megalithic remnants of their Neolithic cathedrals
attract thousands of tourists today to Malta. When the new religion of the male
gods arrived, several new names were given to the same Saharan language. They
are still spoken in outlying areas such as: Elamite
(Mesopotamia), Canaanite
(Canaan), Minoan (Crete), Hatti (Anatolia), Ligurian
(Italy), Pictish (Scotland), Cruithin (Ireland), Cythian (Black Sea), Basque (Pyrenees), Ainu (Japan), Dravidian
(India), Olmec (Central America), Polynesian (Oceania).
All of these languages changed and evolved but those that are still
spoken, such as Ainu and Dravidian, can easily be recognized as belonging to
the genetic group of Saharan languages. Of all these isolated languages, it
appears that the Basque language is still the closest, by far, to the
original language. SECOND LEVEL INVENTED LANGUAGES
Because of the religious work, probably
in the cult town of Nerik, in the Hittite Province
of Kizzuwadna,
a new male-dominated
religion was
created. It purposely inverted all
aspects of the Goddess religion and reduced the stature of the Goddess to
spouse of the new God king, a forerunner of the later Judaic religion (See
Raphael Patai: The Hebrew Goddess). The
Saharan language was so dominant within the Goddess religion, its tribal organization
and in its worldwide coverage that around 2,000 bce. the decision was made to
destroy it, the oral tradition and its tribal system by any means possible.
This order was repeated much later in Genesis 11:7 "Let us confuse their
language so they may no longer understand each other's speech". They
began with creating new languages for the Hittite empire: Lycian,
Luwian, Palaic, Lydian and Hittite,
creating each with its own script. THIRD LEVEL INVENTED LANGUAGES
Over many centuries, the religious
center in Kizzuwadna sent out groups of highly educated missionaries to
various parts of the world with orders to introduce male domination, a new
religion, create a new language and an original script. This effort resulted
in: Sanskrit (India), Ancient Egyptian (Egypt), Ge'ez
(Ethiopia), Greek
(Greece), Etruscan (Tuscani), Iberian (Spain), Hebrew (Israel), Ugaritic (Syria), Tocharian (China), Japanese (Japan),
Toltec (Central America), and possibly a Yiddish/Gothic related
language in Russia. Could these have been the Twelve Tribes of Israel? FOURTH LEVEL INVENTED LANGUAGES
Several of these languages spawned
their own when: Hebrew scholars created the Semitic languages e.g. Arabic, Phoenician,
Syriac, Aramaic. Sanskrit
scholars created a host of Northern Indian languages: Maldivian,
Sinhalese, Vedda, Kalasha,
Kashmiri, Nepali, Bengali
etc.
FIFTH LEVEL INVENTED LANGUAGES
The Benedictine monks, working
from scriptoria on the east coast of England, developed the basic structure
of the Germanic group of languages such as: English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish etc.
Benedictine monks working from the Pannonhalma
Scriptorium in Hungary created Hungarian,
which special invention technique was taken north to create Estonian,
Finnish and
Lappish.
All these
languages have the Saharan/Basque language as their core. The above is very
preliminary and needs more work. It appears that the Sino-Tibetan, Amerind, Austric, Australian and Khoisian language groups were not
involved in this effort to distort and make over. Nyland has proposed no changes in these. |
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For further detail, please
refer to:
Nyland, Edo. 2001. Linguistic Archaeology: AnIntroduction. 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,
B.C.,
Canada. 307 p. [see abstract
& summary].
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