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The most ancient languages on earth. How did the language appear? What are the theories about its origin?

Stories about the emergence of the primary proto-language on Earth.

For a long time, scientists, ethnographers, linguists and historians have been trying to find (recreate) the very first language on Earth, from which all other languages of the peoples of the world originated.

There are now more than 5,000 languages on Earth.
The first researchers believed that all languages originated from the ancient Egyptian language, since the Egyptians have long been considered the most ancient people in the world. Now even academic historians believe that the Sumerians and Elamites were older than the Egyptians.
For a long time scientists tried to consider the Hebrew language to be the most ancient language.
But these attempts were also unsuccessful.
The most detailed research into the reconstruction of the primary language was carried out by Hermann Wirth, a Dutch-German historian. Herman Wirth, in his theory, believed that the initial first language of all the peoples of the world originated from the people living in the north of Europe, on the continent of Arctida (in the Northern Arctic Ocean) approximately 20 thousand years ago. It was the language of the Hyperboreans. Wirth considered the American Indians to be the first immigrants from Hyperborea. He wrote his theory in the book “Hyperborean Theory”. There he made attempts to depict the first hieroglyphs of the primary language. He believed that modern views writings arose from proto-runic signs. He also considered the Indo-Europeans to be the descendants of the Hyperboreans, who 6 thousand years ago, cheerful, wise, blue-eyed, came to Europe from the last flooded Hyperborean lands. Wirth believed that Hyperborean women and men were of the same height, and they were tall. Later, mixing with more southern peoples, their growth decreased.
Much later, more realistic research and theories about the first language of earthlings began to appear. In 1935, the Gurunsi-Nankanse tribes, nomadic in the savannas of Western Sudan, used a whistling language in addition to their regular language.
The whistling language is used in Gascony, Nepal, Mexico, and in the northeast of Asia Minor in the Turkish village of Kushkoy. The most studied whistling language is the one in which the inhabitants of Homer, one of the Canary Islands, whistle. They whistle in Spanish. Back in 1878, this language was called Silbo.
500 years ago, before Spanish colonization, people in La Gomera whistled not in Spanish, but in the language of the Guanche people. They were tall, white-skinned and red-haired / this is how the first Europeans who appeared there - the Genoese - saw them in the 13th century.
The Guanche skulls and the Cro-Magnon skulls are completely identical.
Cro-Magnons are the first modern people/Homo sapiens/ appeared in Europe in ice age, about 40 thousand years ago, replacing the Neanderthals. Where did you go then?? One of their branches was pushed south, the exiles lived in the territory of modern Spain, and then in North Africa, then moved to the Canary Islands.
Where did Cro-Magnons come from?? There lived short Neanderthals with half-animal thinking, and suddenly tall ones, more than 190 cm tall, settled next to them. They came to Europe from Atlantis. Atlanteans migrated to both sides of the Atlantic. The first wave hit Europe about 40 thousand years ago. About 15 thousand years ago - the second wave, from which the Aurignac culture remained. And finally, 10 thousand years ago / when Atlantis perished / the third wave brought an equally high Azilian culture.
Before the man spoke, he first whistled, then sang. Australopithecines could whistle. Pithecanthropus already mastered animal mimicry / imitated animal voices /. Neanderthal performed ritual songs. The whistle of dolphins is difficult to distinguish from silbo. The language of whistling, birdsong, and the voices of dolphins are branches of one common proto-language that disappeared in ancient times.
God threw Adam and Eve into Ceylon and Arabia, and when they met on Earth, they whistled.
Where is the whistling language spoken? One of the seven main Canary Islands is the almost circular island of La Gomera, in the center of which rises the Garajonay mountain range, dotted with deep gorges and rocky outcrops. Since time immemorial, Gomeran shepherds have learned not only to move along it by jumping with the help of a long stick, but also to communicate with each other over a long distance using the language of whistling, which easily covers several kilometers thanks to the echo reflected from the rocks. The island's natives even invented an entire communication system based on this language, " lexicon"who eventually became quite rich. Linguists gave this original language the name “silbo”, which means “whistle”. With the development of civilization, the need for it gradually disappeared, and today's Spanish-speaking islanders forget it, considering it a relic of the past. However, local authorities, concerned about preserving the unique language, which at the end of the last century was even included in the list of cultural achievements of mankind, introduced its teaching in schools. Today small island La Gomera is classified as an eco-tourism site, and in addition to its unique nature, an attraction for tourists here is also the whistling language, which Gomeran whistlers willingly demonstrate at certain venues, in cafes and restaurants, performing even small performances. In the French Pyrenees there is another similar place - a small village of As, lost among the gorges and rocks, whose inhabitants also use a similar language. People who seem to live in sight of each other do not go to visit their neighbors, since this trip is mortally dangerous. They have long satisfied the need for communication without leaving home, thanks to the same language of whistling. The whistle easily covers distances of up to 2 kilometers here and is not so much drowned out by the winds and noise of waterfalls that are usual for these places. Asci deftly press the middle of their tongue with one or two fingers, and with the tip of the tongue, using the articulatory apparatus, they whistle the desired message, while they easily recognize each other by their individual style of whistling.
Currently, there are few places left in the world where they speak the whistling language - in the village of As in the French Pyrenees, on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands archipelago, in the valleys of Turkey and in Mexico, on the territory of the Mazatec and Zapotec Indians...
Now let me try to expand on this topic. The first people on Earth (the 1st and 2nd races and the beginning of the 3rd race were without physical bodies) were created in the image and likeness of the Almighty and representatives from the Moon, Venus, and the Sun. Therefore, communication between these people took place without the use of sound. Later, people with material bodies began to appear (3rd race - Lemurians (Asuras). With the advent of physical bodies in people, people increasingly began to use sounds when communicating. At first, this sound resembled the rustling of leaves
(natural sound). Later, the person began to use only consonant sounds (note that small children first learn to express their mood only with vowel sounds). And whistling (this is also a natural sound; many animals, especially birds, use whistling) has been used by people for the longest time, right up to the present day.
Gradually, more and more vowel sounds were added to the whistle and vowel sounds; I think this began already in the era of the asura civilization; perhaps the Atlanteans began to use even more consonants. Over time, the language of the Asuras and Atlanteans changed more and more and disintegrated. For example, today's direct descendants of the Asuras - the Bushmen - will already be able to communicate with the Australian aborigines, with the Papuans and Veddoids of Sri Lanka.
And the direct descendants of the Atlanteans, the Basques, are unlikely to understand the Georgians or Chechens. The Hyperboreans (and Indo-Europeans) also descended from the Atlanteans. It is at this stage that Wirth’s research is very important. From the 12th millennium, the Hyperboreans began to move south and reached India and Ceylon, in the west they reached Ireland, in the east they reached China (Tocharians).
Let me remind you that in ancient legends it was the asuras (Lemurians) who began to equate themselves with the gods (their teachers), and began to consider themselves equal to the gods. For this they were punished, and languages began to change and divide (accordingly, new peoples began to appear).

Over time, the variety of languages in the world has become so great that their number no longer fits in our imagination. Languages evolve along with humanity. In order to find out how advanced and developed languages have become, it is necessary to study the world's oldest languages. This is the basis that served as the basis for modern languages. Identifying it is not an easy task, it’s like identifying the oldest civilization in the world. First you need to study the written monuments that were found during archaeological excavations. Otherwise, it is very difficult to accurately determine which of the languages is the most ancient, since languages were spoken long before writing appeared.

So, what are they the most ancient languages in the world?

The most ancient languages in the world

Sumerian language

The first written evidence dates back to 3200 BC. Written monuments in this language were discovered at the Jemdet Nasr archaeological site in Iraq. Sumerian was the language of the ancient Sumerians, whose appearance dates back to the 4th millennium BC. Sumerian is also considered an isolated language that does not have family ties with other languages.

Akkadian language

First mentions of Akkadian language date back to 2800 BC. Written evidence of this language has been found in the Shaduppum region of Iraq. This language was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, but is now considered dead. The language got its name from the city of Akkad, large center Mesopotamian civilization of that time. The first texts written in Akkadian language, appeared during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. Thousands of texts have been discovered in excavations so far. The Akkadian language served as a means of communication between two peoples who lived in ancient times on the territory of the modern Middle East. The language began to fade away in the 8th century. BC.

Egyptian language

The indigenous language of Egypt belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. The first written monuments of this language date back to 3400 BC. The first written evidence was found in the tomb of Pharaoh Seth-Peribsen. Until the end of the 7th century AD. this language existed in the form of the Coptic language. Modern version language is known as Egyptian, which replaced the Coptic language after the Muslim conquest of Egypt. However, the Coptic language still exists today as the language of worship of the Coptic Church.

Eblaite language

A Semitic language, now dead, Eblaitic was once the dominant language, dating back to 2400 BC. Thousands of tablets with inscriptions in this language were found during archaeological excavations of the ruins of the city of Ebla. It was spoken in the 3rd millennium BC. V ancient city Ebla, between Aleppo and Hama, now in Western Syria. Considered to be the second oldest written Semitic language after Akkadian, the language is now considered dead.

Minoan language

This language was widely spoken in the 2nd century BC. It was the language of ancient Crete. Today the language is considered an isolate, since its connection with other languages has not been established.

Hittite

The first mention of the Hittite language dates back to 1650. BC. Today it is a dead language, but it was once spoken by the Hittites, a people in north-central Anatolia. The language fell into disuse after the collapse of the Hittite Empire.

Greek language

It is considered one of the oldest written living languages in the world. First entries on Greek date back to 1400 BC. With 34 centuries of written history, this language has the most long history written language among all Indo-European languages. Greek is the native language of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan Peninsula. Today, Greek is spoken by approximately 13 million people.

The first written evidence in Chinese dates back to the 11th century. BC. Over 1 billion people speak Chinese today - this is one of the most spoken languages in the world. The Chinese language consists of , where Putonghua ( standard Chinese ) ranks first in terms of the number of speakers. The group as a whole and other language variants are called Chinese.

Assimilates with early childhood without special training, being in an appropriate language environment. A child can learn several languages to one degree or another from early childhood, but such cases are not common.

Contrasted with native language(s) second language(or second languages), which a person masters at an older age (with special training, being in an appropriate language environment, or otherwise). As a rule, a person speaks a second language from the point of view of those for whom he is native, in some ways “worse”, he makes certain “mistakes” (even very minor ones), in particular, his knowledge of the second language is influenced by his native language or other second languages (interference).

IN colloquial speech Often the concept of “native language” is understood as the language of the people or nationality to which a person belongs (“we began to teach our native language in pedagogical school”). “Native language” in this sense may not be spoken at all: “Children of emigrants do not know their native language.” This use of the term is not accepted in science, and the corresponding concept is sometimes designated by the term “ethnic language”. So, for any Armenian, the ethnic language is Armenian, and his native language can be Russian or French or any other.

To draw attention to the problem of preserving linguistic diversity, UNESCO established International Mother Language Day.

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Alexander Dragunkin, a graduate of the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, linguist, author of several sensational books, claims that the Old Russian language was the proto-language of the entire Earth!

Are the British descendants of Russians?

"It all started with English, which I taught long years", Alexander Dragunkin told MK in St. Petersburg about the background of his discovery.

“The further I went, the more I was not satisfied with the method of teaching it - and some new ideas appeared latently. In 1998, I sat down to write my first book - a guide to English language. I stopped going to the office, locked myself at home and on the most primitive computer in a month I typed SOMETHING that I was stunned by. In that work I proposed my own method quick memorization English words - by analogy with Russian ones. And while developing it, I came across the obvious: English words are not just similar to Russian ones - they have Russian origin!"

Can you prove it?

“Of course. Just first remember three simple basic rules of philology.

First: you can ignore the vowels in a word; the most important thing is the backbone of the consonants.

Second: consonants are very clearly grouped according to the place of formation in the mouth - for example, L, R, N are formed different movements tongue, but in the same part of the palate. Try to pronounce them and see for yourself.

There are several such chains of consonants: v-m-b-p-f, l-r-s-t-d-n, h-ts-k-g-z-zh, v-r-h, s-ts-h (j).

When a word is borrowed, letters can be replaced in accordance with these chains.

And the third rule: when moving from one language to another, a word can only be shortened, and most often the first syllable disappears.”

And now examples

"Please. The English word girl (girl - girl) has no origin in its homeland. But in Old Russian there was a wonderful word that was used to call young people - Gorlitsa! The backbone of the consonants is the same, and English word in short - so who took the floor from whom?

Another example is the English REVOLT. Let's say you don't know what this means - now let's see who stole from whom. Any Latinist will tell you that RE is a prefix, VOL is a root and a “mysterious T”.

Western philologists don’t even say where it came from.

But I’m a simple person: let’s assume an idiotic option - that the British took this word from someone and distorted it over time. Then, if RE is a prefix meaning “repetition”, and the English took this prefix from someone, then over a thousand years it could only become shorter (remember the philological law). This means that we can assume that it was originally longer.

So, in the whole world there is only one prefix that meant the same thing, but was longer - the Russian PERE-! L and R are interchangeable consonants from the same chain. We rewrite the word in Russian - PERE-VOR-oT. REVOLT translated means “coup, rebellion” - so who borrowed from whom? And the “mysterious T”, on which all English linguists stumble, turns out to be the most common Russian suffix. There are incredibly many such examples.

And why on earth should the English, living on an island far from our vast homeland, supplement themselves with Russian words - they didn’t have their own?

"The English may well turn out to be the descendants of the ancient Russians. There is completely official data (which, however, is often hushed up) that the Saxons - the ancestors of the English - came not from anywhere, but from the Volga River. In the scientific world this is an axiom. The Saxons are plural from the word "sak". That is, on the Volga they were SACs. Further, according to the law about the shortening of a word when moving into another language, we conclude that this word could have originally been longer. I see no other explanation for the origin of the word SAKI, other than from the truncated RUSAKA.

It was not the Tatars who invented the mat.

Okay, but what about other languages? You don't claim to know every language in the world, do you?

“I’m not saying. But I know many languages. I can easily communicate in English, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Polish. I know Japanese, but I don’t speak it. I studied ancient Chinese at the university, and seriously studied Hindi in my youth. Therefore, I can compare.

Here's an example. Let's take Latin word SECRET (secret, something hidden). The whole world is staring at this word, but its origin is unknown. In addition, it is not decomposed into components - there is no prefix or suffix. Some see the same “mysterious suffix T”. The most dashing Western philologists highlight the root CR - this is the Latin CER, “to see.” But why on earth is the “secret”, what is hidden, based on the root “to see”? This is absurd! I do it differently - I get impudent and write the same letters in Old Russian - SъKRYT. And I get complete similarity of meaning, an obvious prefix C, a wonderful root and our native suffix. Remember that vowels are completely unimportant for philology.

Or also the word “harem”. The fact that the Russian princes before the Romanovs had whole crowds of concubines - historical fact. Now, if I have many beautiful wives, where will I keep them? In the best rooms, which in Rus' were called KhoRoMy - remember the chains of alternating consonants - so where did the word GaReM come from?

So that means they borrowed everything from us, and not we from strangers?

“Naturally! I even refuted the established “Tatar” theory of the origin of Russian obscenities.”

There were no Tatars?

“It wasn’t - it’s just our invention. I can demonstrate it.
We have the word star - this is a star. Zvez is a distorted “light”. That is, a star is something that “lights.” And if we follow this word formation scheme, what will the name of what they “pee” be called? It's one word.
Next, where did the word “stick” come from? Initially it was called “phalka” because it was used to puff and shove. The English word stick (stack, stick) is clearly our poke, “poke”.
Let's return to the word “pkhat” - form the imperative mood, as with the word “poke”: poke - stick, phat - what? And the “p” disappeared over time. The most interesting thing with the verb is that only in Russian you can say: “I fucked her.”
M and B, as you remember, are alternating - replace the letter M in the word “fuck” and see what happens.”

Well, swearing is not proof that Old Russian is the proto-language of the whole world.

“Okay, here’s another thing: the names of all sacred religious books are of Russian origin.”

Even the Koran?

"Yes. In Arab world it is believed that this word has no etymology. But it is there. The Koran, as you know, is the revelations of the Prophet Muhammad, collected by the scribe Zeid - and KEPT by him! The Qur'an is So-kran.
With the Jewish Torah it is even simpler: this is a book about CREATION - the Torah is T (v) ora.

The Bible is a little different - you need to know that it is written on paper, and paper is made from cotton. Cotton in Slavic is called BaVeLna - BiBLe. The Bible is just a stack of paper!
I’m not talking about the Indian “Vedas” at all: here the obvious origin is from the word to know. Each of these explanations can be disputed separately, but the interesting thing is that all the names have a correct interpretation only through the Russian language."

Well, what about the names of gods and servants?

"Allah... If we assume that this word is not Arabic and has lost its first consonant over time, then only one word remains, which also corresponds to the meaning - WALLAH - Magi, and the Magi were priests. There is also the Russian root MOL, from which came the word “pray.” MoL is the same as MuL - MULLA who asks God.

In English, priest PRieST - in Russian letters ASK.
I don't believe there can be that many coincidences. The fact that the words are similar and have at the same time same meaning- that's half the battle. But pay attention: in all cases when a word cannot find an origin in its “native” language, in Russian it acquires a completely logical etymology - and all its mysteries, suffixes that come from incomprehensibly, which traditional philology cannot explain, become completely normal parts the words are in Russian! Our language is amazing. It brings us to the bottom of the world - I am sure that it was created artificially and the matrix of the universe is encrypted in it."

What is hell and heaven

Were you able to decipher anything?

"Very interesting things.
For example, only in Russian the whole surrounding a person the world was described using one syllable with the root BL (taking into account the chain of alternating consonants). What was around ancient man? BoR, MoRe, Pole, SwampLoto, PaR (as air used to be called) and so on.

All animal world described on a geometric basis only in the Russian language: in other languages these are words taken out of context, but in ours they form a system. Living things were described using three roots, which are the shapes of the body.
For example, everything ROUND is described using the root KR/GL and its derivatives - Head, Eye, Throat, Knee, Shin.

Further, only in the Russian language was man distinguished from the rest of the animal world by the main characteristic - reason. The mind is located in the head, which used to have another name - MAN. How we were singled out from the world - we were called MAN!”

So, did our ancestors receive knowledge about the world from language itself?

“Our ancestors knew everything, because everything was described in language simply.
Paradise is nothing more than a stripped-down EDGE, where everything is healthy and cool.
Hell is simply what is BELOW us.
Let’s remember the word “star” - light, yes - long before telescopes, people who spoke Russian knew that stars are not just holes in the sky, but that what shines emits light!

You said that the language was created artificially. Why was it created at all?

Love could well be expressed in the number of killed mammoths.

"The Russian language also answers this question. Remember Tyutchev’s famous phrase: “A thought expressed is a lie”? What did the poet want to say? I’ll show you.
In the Russian language there are three verbs that mean the process of speech - to speak, to say, to utter (or to expound).

But what’s interesting is that only in the Russian language three verbs meaning lies have the same roots: to speak - to lie, to lay out / lay out - to lie / LIE, to say - to distort.
Language was initially created not for the exchange of information, but as a tool for its distortion, a method of influence.
Now, of course, we already use it for communication. However, rest assured, of all the peoples of the world, only we speak the most direct descendant of the proto-language."

And who created it?

"Those who created humanity."

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These words are considered borrowed from the Russian language in recent centuries. However, Alexander Dragunkin is convinced of their Russian “origin”:

Galaktika - from the Russian dialect "GaLaGa" (fog)
Dollar - from DoL
CALCULATOR - from HOW MANY
Laboratory - from RaBot (L and R alternate)
Lady - from LaDa (ancient Russian goddess)
HoTel (hotel) - from HaTa
NeGR - from NeKrasivy
ELEMENT - from unbroken
sMoG - from MGla
GloBus - from KoLoBok (G and K alternate)

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Presumably, the mystery of the origin of the first language is in Iraq. About a couple of thousand years ago, a tribe of Sumerians lived on its territory. But this is only one of the versions. Some linguists believe that the first language originates much earlier: more than 15 thousand years ago. It is impossible to determine exactly which language was the progenitor of all language families, and linguists speak about it only in general phrases.

What do we know about the proto-language?

Whether he was of Arabic or Latin origin is unknown to anyone. However, most likely of Latin origin, since many world languages have some similarities with it, and artificial ones were even based on its basic part. There is another version that the parent of all world languages began its existence in South Africa.

The difficulty in determining the first language lies in the fact that many dialects have words with common roots, such as “mom”, “dad”, items of clothing and household items, and many others. As mentioned at the beginning, Sumerian may have been the first language, but in addition to it, they are also considered "Phrygian" and "Egyptian".

The world's first language - an unsolved mystery?

The first language was not unique and universal; it could even be mixed. Today they continue to actively search for the roots of the proto-language and draw up detailed linguistic maps to search for it. There is hope that his mystery will someday be solved. But the good thing is that the supposed versions for linguists are not in vain. Thus, whether its exact origin will be revealed after the same millennia remains to be seen, but linguistic scientists believe that the truth is somewhere not too far away.

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