Mother of all Indo-European languages was born in Turkey

AFP ^ | 11/26/2003 | N/A

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[maro]

I believe that this belief was disproved more than 150 years ago. See other posts for current state of knowledge.

[Hunble]

Try UNDER the black sea....

[a_Turk]

>> Yeah, everybody knows thats when they were Ottomans.


You're not serious, right?

[a_Turk]

Hindi.

[SpookBrat]

Interesting article. I enjoy history. Keep me pinged on stuff like this.

[JNB]

Another far flung language group, I think called Altaic, started where present day Mongolia is today. This group gave rise to presdent day Mongolian and Turkish languages, also Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian and possibly Japanese and Koran.

[blam]

"The curious thing is that the Black Sea wasn't there 8 to 9 thousand BP. The Mediteranean didn't break through into the Black Sea Basin till around 7 thousand BP."

"A lot of people are beginning to gues that the true source of the Indo European peoples was under the present Black Sea."

You got it. The Black Sea flood (Noah's Flood) 7,600 years ago changed everything. At that time the whole region was very arid, people were crowded around the fresh water Black Sea as fishermen and irrigation farmers, most were farmers. (The sea edge and the river valleys were the only places liveable)

When the 'plug' at the Bosporus broke, the water in the whole Black Sea began to rise at the rate of six inches a day and covered the villages around the edge under 550 feet of salt water. Most survived and were able to walk away with what they could carry and their animals.
The survivors streamed up the river valleys of the Don, Dniepier, Danube and others shoving out or killing the valley inhabitants before them. Remember, the river valleys were the only inhabitable areas now (fresh water) because the Black Sea is becoming salt water, everyone's world changed.

These refugees streamed into Europe bringing farming and the language with them. They streamed across the Anatolian Plateau to become the Sumerians (Gilgamesh), Egyptians (pyramid builders) and others. They set out across the steppes where they were recently discovered as mummies in China (Tocharians) and some even believe they are the Ainu of Japan(I don't). They are also the Aryians who invaded Northern India.

[GeekDejure]

Yikes... Ike Ants Pee King Lish !!! ;-))

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[RedWhiteBlue]

bump for later ..........

[Revolting cat!]

Yeah, everybody knows thats when they were Ottomans.

Ottomans? I'm confused!

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.....for later

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Your comments make a lot of sense to me, intuitively. Can you point me to any good books on the subject?

[blam]

"Can you point me to any good books on the subject?"

A book by Ryan & Pittman titled Noah's Flood

[Verginius Rufus]

Another example of the satem/centum divide is the word for "heart." In Greek (centum) it is "kardia." In Latin (centum) it is "cor" (root "cord-"). In English (centum) the initial "k" sound has changed to an "h" giving us "heart." (The same k/h correspondence can be seen in the Greek, Latin, and English words for "dog" [kyon/canis/hound]...and that's why the English word for 100 starts with an "h"). In Russian (satem), the word for "heart" is "serdtse." (Same root but the "k" sound is replaced with an "s" sound.)

[Verginius Rufus]

J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans (Thames and Hudson, 1989; ISBN 0-500-27616-1).

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Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth

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Tracking The Tarim Mummies

[Wilhelm Tell]

I haven't given serious study to anything as exotic as Sanskrit, but how languages evolved has long been an interest of mine. Since the Indo-European languages are related, the study of one can pay off in interesting ways. For example, I recently "discovered" the Latvian language. I can read Russian and German and was aware of the Baltic languages but had not studied them. I recently obtained a Bible in Latvian, and immediately saw the "Russian" grammar all over the place! Many of the words have more or less similar counterparts in Russian, German (and Swedish) and Latin. The more Latvian I read, the more of it "clicks" in my mind. What did not "click" was when I have tried to read a language like Hungarian that is from a different framework. I was unable to guess at the meaning of the words or the sentence structure in Hungarian -- I was completely in unfamiliar territory.