Written by We already talked about the theories that are out there in the Internet about the Indo-European language related to other hypothetical proto-languages. Well, I found a new one, related to creationism – not only to that of the American Mormons, but also to a Catholic Saint’s revelations, those of Anne Catherine Emmerich. The following text [...]
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About the 'hypothetical' Proto-Indo-European language
Indo-European is most commonly referred to by many – usually non-Indo-European – linguists as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages. Also, people usually refer to other languages or language families without written remains as hypothesis. We could talk, then, about the hypothetical Indo-Uralic, Eurasian, Ural-Altaic, Proto-Pontic or Nostratic languages, for example. On the [...]
READ MORE »Basque, 'the oldest language'
There are, from time to time, some articles or speeches which address a common misconception hardly related to linguistics, namely that of Basque being ‘the oldest language’. Firstly, let me say that I (as many others) like the Basque language specially because of its peculiarity: it is one of those strange language isolates that can [...]
READ MORE »Brugmann's 'wrong approach' to Proto-Indo-European
I read in some Slavic-oriented personal website, with a tiny section dedicated to Indo-European studies, that Brugmann‘s old approach was wrong due to his wrong assumptions about PIE – confusingly enough, he mixes Brugmann’s (late) PIE with an early PIE, in turn related to a hypothetical Indo-Uralic -, and subsequently also every single work published [...]
READ MORE »Happy new Indo-European Year!
We are entering a new year, hopefully The first Indo-European Year. I have been thinking about where we started, and what I thought exactly a year ago that it was going to happen with our Indo-European revival projects. Even though I usually complain a lot about our lack of resources, I shall say that if [...]
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