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#1 Arpa

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:02 AM

Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program
I post this here under the category of Culture since it encompasses a variety of disciplines like language, history, archeology, science, technology et al , to not forget POLITICS.
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Is this Urartuan Cuneiform? The caption says Assyrian.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65842000/jpg/_65842877_c0095621-cuneiform_inscription-spl.jpg
Urartian Cuneifom;
http://www.tourismturkeysite.com/img/regions-east/vanmus.gif
See the rest here. Note that the A word is not anywhere to find.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21427896

A new tool has been developed that can reconstruct long-dead languages.
Researchers have created software that can rebuild protolanguages - the ancient tongues from which our modern languages evolved.
To test the system, the team took 637 languages currently spoken in Asia and the Pacific and recreated the early language from which they descended.

The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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Another OH YEAH!! moment. Once again note that the A word is totally absent in the list of Indo-European languages..
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English language 'originated in Turkey'
Why are most European languages are known as Indo-European, not furko-European? Does the queen speak furkish? How about Shakespeare?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
 

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Posted 12 February 2013 - 12:57 PM

This may finally be a more robust alternative to the recent phylogenetic trend supplementing Indo-European studies.

By the way, the media coverage of the Gray-Atkinson paper (on the urheimat problem) was abysmal. I mean just look at that stupid BBC headline..!

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Posted 13 February 2013 - 09:24 AM

CYRILLIC?
Below we see this. “Armenians used Greek, Persian**** or CYRILLIC?”**
Is this the kind of “scholarship” we spread to the world? Where are OUR "scholars"? Don't tell me.They are still out to prove that dolma and basturma are Armenian WORDS.
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As well as creating the Armenian alphabet (the language already existed, but only in spoken form). St Mesrob devoted his life to translating into his mother tongue the most important texts of the period, which were written in Greek, Persian or Cyrillic. He and his disciples devoted….

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Coelho's article on Armenia
The other side of the Tower of Babel
By Paulo Coelho
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Today is 9 October, 2004. The town is called Oshakan, and Armenia, as far as I know, is the only place in the world that has declared the day of the Holy Translator, St. Mesrob, a national holiday and where they celebrate it in style. As well as creating the Armenian alphabet (the language already existed, but only in spoken form). St Mesrob devoted his life to translating into his mother tongue the most important texts of the period, which were written in Greek, Persian or Cyrillic. He and his disciples devoted themselves to the enormous task of translating the Bible and the main literary classics of the time. From that moment on, the country’s culture gained its own identity, which it has maintained to this day.

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**Cyrillic was invented in the 10th century AD, 600 years after Mashtots***, in of all places Bulgaria.
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***Even if in the 1920-s we came so close to adopting it. The Armenian word for Cyrillic is Kyureghian.
**** What is Persian Alphabet?

Edited by Arpa, 13 February 2013 - 09:32 AM.





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