Post No. 14,780
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There was speech in their dumbness, language in their gesture- Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale.
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Who climbs the grammar tree, distinctly knows,
Where now and verb and participle grows.
–Dryden
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Traffic light language
The red, green and yellow lights and blinkers in road junctions are new words invented by men to say
Stop
Go
Slow, wait.
Blinkers = caution.
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Gesture language
To the ancient Greeks, a downward nod of the head meant YES, an upward nod NO.
The modern Neapolitans express NO by an upward jerk of the head, coupled with the sticking out of the lower lip.
Tamils nod head up and down to say YES, side to side or left and right to say NO.
Some signs are strange . we say THUUMBS DOWN, but show thumbs turned up.
Like wise saying GOOD BYE, TATA also differ from culture to culture .
Tamils say DU and SETHI with fingers making different shape to say I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE and LET US BE FRIENDS AGAIN.
Gesture language can be understood only when you live in that culture
(Myself had very great difficulties in explaining the Tamil gestures to white Immigration officers when I interpreted for Sri Lankan refugees in airports and ports from Dover to Birmingham in England.)
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Origin of human speech
God, that all powerful creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
–Quintilian
Language- human language – after all , is but little better than the croak and cackle of the fowls and other utterances of brute nature—sometimes no so adequate.
–Hawthorne
As late as the seventeenth century , a Swedish philologist seriously maintained that in the Garden of Eden, God spoke Swedish!
Adam Danish and the serpent French, while a ta Turkish linguistic congress held in 1934 it was seriously argued that Turkish is at the root of all languages, all words are derived from gunes, the Turkish word for the Sun, the fist object to strike the human fancy and demand a name.
Dravidian fanatics in Tamil Nadu (India) still brainwash illiterates saying that Tamils appeared on earth with swords in their hands even before the rocks became sand!
They talk about geological periods when Dinosaurs are roaming.
All Hindus believe that Sanskrit and Tamil came from Lord Shiva; they teach their children first to write God’s name in the plate full of grains. It is known as Akshara Abhyaasam, practised in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
(My own theory is that all the ancient languages have their roots in India. The migration of the letter J shows the Hindu influence in the languages of the world; no other ancient language except Sanskrit has this J sound. It becomes Y sound as it migrated to different cultures. Tamils changed AJA into AYAN for Brahma 2000 years ago. Later the world saw Joseph=Yusuf, Jesus= Yesu, Jew=Yuudha, Java= Yava, Jaffna= Yaazpanam; foreign idiots thought it happened because of the confusion between Roman letters J and Y; but Tamils and Sankritsts attested such a change even before the J and Y are invented).
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Animal cries remain unchanged, but the languages changed. The ancient Greek comic poets indicated a sheep’s cry by the Greek letters having the value of BEH; in modern Greek , those letters have changed their value to VEE. The sheep’s cry has not changed in 2000 years, but the Greek language has.
Foreigners did not study ancient Tamil literature 100 years ago; so they wrote absurd linguistic theories . Languages do change in course of time is a fact. But Max Muller said Sanskrit changed every 200 years and so the age of Rig Veda is 1200 BCE. When Prof Wilson, Goldstucker and others blasted and torn him to pieces he changed his theory .
No one has shown that the language had changed exactly at 200 year interval in any other parts of the world. More over Dravidian fanatics place all books with different grammatical and language patters at the same period!
(Examples- Tirukkural, Sangam Literature, Tolkappiam and Silappadikaram etc before third century CE; it is impossible to justify linguistically!)
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…………………………Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece and into Noah’s Ark
–Cowper , Retirement
It has long been the dream of linguists to trace all languages to a common source. Attempts to do this have so far proved largely fruitless.
Dogs and cocks gave a severe blow to linguists. Same dog barks in the same way; but listeners in different countries hear it differently and write it with different spellings.
Withing New Guines there hundreds of languages, exceeding 700. In the vast Australian continent, there are over 200 languages . all these gave a severe blow to the old theories. Now those theories are binned and not even worthy of repeating them here.
What we have found so far is the influence of Sanskrit over the languages of Asia and Europe. Bhraataa in Sanskrit became bruder in German, bhrathair in Irish, frater in Latin, phrater in Greek, brat in Russian and brother in English. But yet with these findings they jumped to wrong conclusions.
As far as sixteenth century, an Italian writer who visited India found out similarities between Italian and Sanskrit. M T Varro had noticed the similarities between Latin and Greek but had come to erroneous conclusion that Greek was the mother language, and Latin the daughter tongue.
Noah webster, of dictionary fame, believed CHALDEE was the original universal language. It remained for Bopp and Grimm brothers, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to create the comparative method by which the exact nature of the relationship among languages spoken in India and Europe was ascertained. William jones in India, earlier, found out the similarities between these languages.
–Subham—
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