Is anyone else here interested in Proto-Indo-European? For some reason the idea just fascinates the fuck out of me. That there was in fact a single unified language that led to languages that are found natively all they way from Ireland to India is just such a cool idea, I think. I especially enjoy the linguistics that we have done to try and pin it down, and it's really clarified a lot of entomology for me. I especially would like to know how it sounded, and sometimes I wonder why everything has an h- in the front of it.
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There were Indo_European, (West Europe), Indo-Sinetic (East Europe, Asia--including the Native American languages except for Navaho and Korean) and Kokatuan (the languages of sub-equatorial Africa).
The exception in Europe is Euskari (Basque) is a the remains of the old Mediterranean language (Etruscan) long deceased. And Renatu (an odd language spoken by some people in the south of Lithuania--a Tocharic lingo.).
Korean is an ancient language that was once spoken throughout the south of China and there is no other language related to Navaho.
That's enough to take in for now (I'm a Bachelor of Philology).
The Saxons came from the south of Poland and they had blue eyes and golden hair. The name (Roman) simply means "people with straw-coloured hair".
The Greco-Armenics (proto Greeks) came from the south of Russia too at the end of the last Ice Age. As did the Latini (Romans) a bit later. The Romans were essentially Scoti (Cattle-herders). Short: the men were about 5'5'' tall and the women were about 5'0'' with light brown hair and light coloured eyes.
i know i know its got sum words from the dam necronomicon (stupid ass txt) but the language of the sumerians is the language that interests me most. so i thought id share a dictionary of sumerian words. it is still in the process of completion but there is alot of txt.
I'm going to see if I can show this to my Western Civilization class, thanks a lot! :thumbsup:
lol im new 2 the whole dead language scene. i start college in like 3 days 2 start 2 study dead language translation and marine bio. i just thought the Sumerian language was iteresting.
Haha, nice one. I myself am still a senior in high school, I'm going to study computer science at uni next year (because there's no real money in linguistics anyway, but it's good for a minor). Anyway, it is interesting, because it's an isolate. Those are the fun ones.
Thou forgot the Finno-Ugric languages, the main ones being Magyar (Hungarian), Suomi (Finnish) and Eesti (Estonian). And Rolf has not heard of Euskari being a part of the Tyrsenian family, hmm, Rolf thought it isolate, interesting theory states Rolf.
They say that Lithuanian is the modern language most like the PIE language as it retains some of the archaic features that the other languages lost, states Rolf.
Ah, indeed the Baltic languages are.
Related: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/
University of Texas at Austin's Linguistics Research Center, an awesome visit.