To: aculeus
I just was reading a new book put out by National Geographic, about using DNA analysis to figure out who's related to who. From what I recall, the southern Indians (Dravidians?) were from the same group that migrated out of Africa first, most of whom ended up becoming Australian Aborigines, but some of whom dropped out along the walk along the south coast of Asia and became the first Indians.
A while later, a different tribe came out of Africa (lots of tribes came out over thousands of years), and after spending a while in central Asia, split off, with some going south into India (Aryans) and Iran (Persians) and others going into Europe. Hence the northern Indian and Persian (Farsi) languages are part of the Indo-European language system.
My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?
43 posted on
02/17/2007 7:17:05 PM PST by
omnivore
To: omnivore
"My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?"
Veni, Vidi, Vinci.
;^D
46 posted on
02/17/2007 10:23:24 PM PST by
RebelTex
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To: omnivore; Andrew Byler
The oldest of the "Aryan" language is Sanskrit (not Farsi or any other European Language) which was/is spoken in India. It was spoken at a time when many of the languages like Farsi, Latin, Celtic, Greek were not even born. Most of the Indo-European Languages derive their grammar from Sanskrit. Sanskrit is also the language in which the Vedas (including the Rig Veda) were written.
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