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Posted on 11/20/2022 7:27:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists From The Aranzadi Science Society First Uncovered The Hand Of Irulegi In 2021, During Excavations Of An Ancient Settlement At The Base Of Castillo De Irulegiko Gaztelua Near Pamplona, Spain.
The object dates from the 1st century BC during the Roman Sertoria Wars (80 to 72 BC), a period of conflict between a faction of Roman rebels (Sertorians) and the government in Rome (Sullans).
According to archaeologists, the hand was placed over a door for protection, but the settlement was burned and then abandoned, leaving the object buried in the ruins of a mud-brick house.
It is suggested that the hand was created by the Vascones, a pre-Roman tribe who inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro River and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees.
It was previously thought that the Vascones had no proper written language (except for a few words), and only started leaving written text after the Romans introduced Latin.
A new study of the Hand of Irulegi has identified five Vasconic words across 40 characters, a discovery that upends much of what was previously known about the Vascones, and suggests that the object contains the earliest text in the Basque language, written in Iberian script.
The first word reads sorioneku, echoing present-day Basque-language "zorioneko", a word that means "good fortune." The word is accompanied by four other words whose meaning is not as apparent...
Joaquin Gorrochategui, Professor of Indo-European Philology at the University of the Basque Country said: "This piece turns upside down what we thought about the Basques and writing. We were almost convinced that the Basques were illiterate in ancient times and did not use writing, nothing more than to mint some coin".
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Well, if the Vascones had made one of the five digits on the hand opposable their tribe might still be around.
It says the same thing everywhere…..
“If you kids come and ring my doorbell again and put another sack of flaming dog crap on my porch, I will hunt you down and turn you all into girls.”
America B.C.A fascinating letter I received from a Shoshone Indian who had been traveling in the Basque country of Spain tells of his recognition of Shoshone words over there, including his own name, whose Shoshone meaning proved to match the meaning attached to a similar word by the modern Basques. Unfortunately I mislaid this interesting letter. If the Shoshone scholar who wrote to me should chance to see these words I hope he will forgive me and contact me again. The modern Basque settlers of Idaho may perhaps bring forth a linguist to investigate matters raised in this chapter. [p 173]
by Barry Fell
(1976)
find it in a nearby library
Who knew?
What were the Shoeshone’s doing in Spain? Or is it that their language traveled to America somehow?
Migration was/is a two-way street, or in this example, ocean.
I had a migration headache once, but the Tylenol fixed it.
It reads, “Never put all your Basques in one exit.”
My cat is from the Pyrenees.
She loves to Basque in the sunshine.
Sometimes she gives me a look that says
“You`re going to hell in a hand Basquet.
I often speculate that the agglutinative languages like Basque and Kartvelian languages are somehow related
LOL!
I think the formula for Tylenol was actually discovered in ancient times, and the pharma company stole it right off some tablet.
I guess the hand of good fortune is better than the fickle finger of fate.
Did they use Truth Social ? ? ?
Language Isolates
Interestingly, there are select languages in the world that do not belong to any single language family. With this happens, it is called a language isolate. Examples of languages that are language isolates include Korean, Sumerian, and Elamite. Many of the world’s language isolates are found in Papua New Guinea, which is the most linguistically diverse country in the world. The language isolate phenomenon is also often seen in sign languages, as many sign languages evolve naturally on their own within smaller communities.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/language-families-with-the-highest-number-of-speakers.html
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/basque.htm
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/georgian.htm
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/languages.htm
I took trig before I ever learned sine language, but any more on that would be going off on a tangent.
Lol
Not extremely relevant but a singer named Caterina Valente who was on the same classic Les Crane Show with the young Bob Dylan interviewed and singing some new songs (Feb.17, 1965——an historic moment for me watching TV) was asked of the dozen or so languages in which she was fluent, which is the most difficult language in the world to learn.
She said Basque.
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