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[muawiyah]

Interesting ~ the key to deciphering that particular ancient script is probably a Dravidian language that simply no longer exists.

There are two arguments about ancient Sumerian ~ it is either an isolate ~ with no connection to any other modern or known language, or it is actually closely related to one or more modern languages, but through a now extinct intermediary.

It has been proposed that Sumerian is derived from a Dravidian base ~ and that it forms the basis for the known Sa'ami languages ~ and that all are actually outside the Fenno-Ughric, or Uralic-Altaic linguistic groups, with the Sa'ami languages having a large accretion of Fenno-Ughric and Germanic vocabulary.

One aspect of this latter argument is that Germanic languages show signs of having adopted Sa'ami grammatical rules before there was a clear differentiation of the Indo-European linguistic group.

Interesting that we have a Finn who accepts the idea that his language has a Dravidian rootword (I am aghast in fact!).

Given the exisgence of a vast number of pictoglyphs in Northern Finland and in the (now Russian) Kola Peninsula that date back at least 7,000 years (in part) it's inescapable that this Finn has something up his sleeve eh!

I can hardly wait for him to roll out the "writing began in Finland) story ~ with PROOF.

[colorado tanker]

If you digitize the script and play it backwards, it says “Paul is dead.”