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Mother of all Indo-European languages was born in Turkey
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Posted on 11/26/2003 5:35:02 PM PST by a_Turk
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:35:03 PM PST
by
a_Turk
To: Shermy; aristotleman; prairiebreeze; Dog Gone; alethia; AM2000; ARCADIA; ...
Before someone wlse says it: It wasn't Turkey then.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:35:56 PM PST
by
a_Turk
(Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, and Justice..)
To: blam
BUMP!
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:38:01 PM PST
by
Cool Guy
(Why is my comment a big jumbled mess?)
To: a_Turk
Next, they'll probably find the ruins of a towel called Babel. Sounds good to me.
To: a_Turk
"Pre-empting-a-verbal-attack-by-certain-kneejerk-balkanites-BUMP"
To: a_Turk
As for the eastern branch, the biggest fork occurred about 4,600 years ago.
This is when Ebonics separated from internet geek-speak.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:41:11 PM PST
by
Asclepius
(karma vigilante)
To: a_Turk
It wasn't Turkey then.Yeah, everybody knows thats when they were Ottomans.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:42:19 PM PST
by
putupon
(Shoes for industry, pills for Bill Gates, comrades.)
To: rovenstinez
The Towel of Babel soaked up too many resources and collapsed in a limp pile.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:45:52 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: a_Turk
I guess it's PC to say BP but since in the US it's still
2003AD then I'll say 7,000BC instead of 9000BP/
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:45:59 PM PST
by
hford02
((We built the UN in NYC to lower the overhead for all socialist spies))
To: a_Turk
Mother of all Indo-European languages was born in TurkeyGlad that Mother got out!!1 ;-)
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:50:58 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
To: a_Turk
Near the mountains of Arrarat perhaps? Shades of Noah's ark.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:57:46 PM PST
by
Ahban
To: hford02
Where does Sanskrit fit into this picture? I recall reading that Indo-European can be traced to Sanskrit origins.
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posted on
11/26/2003 5:57:50 PM PST
by
stanz
(Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
To: a_Turk
Hence the phrase: Let's talk turkey.
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:04:58 PM PST
by
Consort
To: a_Turk
Some say Anatolia, some say the Kurgan people to the North of the Black Sea, some say teh peoples at the mouth of the Danube were the origin.
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.
So9
To: stanz
No, Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language as far I know.
In fact, Indo-European is just a catch-all, there may have been some proto-languages around that area, but I doubt it started with just this group of neolithic farmers. Likely it had a few epicenters and as it spread the branches spread out(romance, Greek, German, etc)
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:11:14 PM PST
by
Skywalk
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:18:10 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Skywalk
Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it? When you've got basically a 'farmer's language' that forms the basis of modern Western languages, it makes you wonder if the so-called 'cognates' or basic language 'markers' didn't have a lot to do with the various kinds of manure people would encounter as they migrated out of the Anatolian valleys.
'Well' said Bubba 'You've got you're chickenshit, you've got you're bullshit, horseshit, shit-on-a-shingle; there's water buffalo shit, yak shit, pig shit, as well as your batshit, and a hundred and twenty five kinds of rodent shit..."
To: a_Turk
This is nothing new; the Hittites of Biblical fame spoke an Indo-European tongue, as do the Armenians, Iranians, Hindus, Pakistanis and various tribes of Afghanistan.
We Honkies are everywhere...
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posted on
11/26/2003 6:32:22 PM PST
by
Chairman Fred
(@mousiedung.commie)
To: stanz
I recall reading that Indo-European can be traced to Sanskrit origins. Udder way 'round. Sanskrit is a very old Eastern Indo-European Language. There are two main branches of Indo-European, the Eastern or "Satem" languages and the Western or "Centum" (pronounced "Kentum") branch. Satem and centum are Avestan (old Iranian) and Latin for one-hundred. In the Eastern branch, the first sound in this word was invariably a sibilant (e.g., "s", "sh" ,etc), in the Western branch a fricative ( "h", "k"...).
Sanskrit, which can be translated as "holy" or "sacred", is a very old member of the Indic family. It stands in relation to modern Indic languages somewhat in the same status as Latin to modern Romance languages. It is fairly far evolved from Indo-European. It is interesting because it still preserves the full grammatic structure and inflections of the older language. One feature is particulary intriguing, the "number" of a noun can be singular, dual or plural. In other words the form of the word for man can be "man", "two (or both) men" or "(more than two) men". There are lots of things that occur so often in pairs that perhaps this is natural: hands, eyes, arms, twins.... English to this day has a unique dual designation, "both". "Both eyes" or "both arms" are different than "two eyes" or "two arms".
To: a_Turk
What does Turkey mean in turkish?
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