[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Renfield. Of course, this is loopy on its face -- there's no way to trace geographical origin of a language without a vintage archive, and the oldest known writing (cave paintings) can't be read, for obvious reasons (no "paper trail", bilingual inscriptions, etc). In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet. Story of Human Language, Course No. 1600 Taught by John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute, Ph.D., Stanford University To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[BIGLOOK]

Having been a linguistics student at the post grad levels, the most enlightening thing I learned was that 'Linguistics is the most unscientific of the sciences and the most inhuman of the humanities'. I'll add a corollary; it's also the most political.

Languages developed and changed from trade, migrations and war. Having been around a bit, there are different dialects in lesser developed countries about a two hour bus ride apart. In ancient days that was most likely a two hour trek apart.

We'll be counting the theories as archaeologists uncover something new (which really isn't) and linguists are brought in to divine some meaning and there'll be as many theories as all the days. That ought to give our successors a lot to dicuss in the future.

[Theoria]

I like this reference: