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2. Language Mix-Up by "the Gods". What are ancient accounts referring to when they say that "the Gods" created many diverse languages and created a babylonian mix-up so that the human race could not continue their progress. Is this some kind of cosmic conspiracy to slow humans down?
Originally posted by evanmontegarde
But I've also read plenty of evidence that language (and civilization) could be much older
Originally posted by Skyfloatingyou make a good case against my point. And this is certainly true of languages within the same language family. But I doubt it is true of completely different language families.
Originally posted by Kacen
The Finnish-Ugric languages are actually Asian in fact there is some evidence they have some relation to native-American languages.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
In reference to Atlantis, the plot thickens. Lets look at the words for "water" on both sides of the ocean:
Aztecan: Tlaloc (water god)
Ancient Greek: Thallasa (water)
Mayan: Thallac (not solid)
Aztecan: atl (water)
Berber-language; atl (water)
Originally posted by merka
Yeah you've said that, but its still TRANSLATED into Roman latin. That's what you write. The question is, are the words *really* that similar in both spoken and written language of the original language.
IMO its little chance that saying "thallac" in our roman latin to a Mayan (well if you could dig some up today, lol) would mean anything to them, its just gonna be jibberish.
[edit on 18-10-2007 by merka]
Samoan tata
Turkish ata
Dakota (Sioux) atey
We can see the relationship by comparing words that begin with /p/ in Greek and /f/ in English. Compare Greek /pater/ 'father' with English father, /penta/ with five , /pod/ 'foot' with foot. Linguists say that we have here a regular sound correspondence. But if we compare other words in the two languages, we will find other sound correspondences: Greek /k/ corresponds to English /h/: compare Greek /kuon/ 'dog' and /kardia/ 'heart' with English hound and heart. And there are many more such sound correspondences. We can use these both to show that two languages are related and even to reconstruct what their common ancestor must have sounded like. But all this is because of the regularity of sound change, something that all human languages share.