Danish Archaeologists In Search Of Vikings In Iran

Payvand ^ | 1-20-2005

[Verginius Rufus]

I wouldn't agree that Indo-European and Semitic are "closely related." Heck, within the Indo-European family there are languages which are only remotely related...and the "Afro-Asiatic" family which includes the Semitic and Hamitic languages has members which are only distantly related to each other. There are some linguists who claim to have found evidence of a relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic families, but I don't think their views have won wide acceptance--the evidence is just too meager because the relationship (if it exists) is so far back in time.

[Ciexyz]

I remember well the master epic "The Vikings" starring Kirk Douglas. Played on TV in the 60's and was my main introduction to all things Viking.

[muawiyah]

Just went through the most frequently accessed "language family" sites on the net and now see what you are referring to.

My touch-stone is whether or not a site has the relationships between and among Sa'ami, Sumerian, Dravidian languages, and one American Indian language straight, or does it rely on an older technique of analysis.

If the site fails to note that vast body of research (which concerns the origin of writing, and includes the petroglyphs in Finland) that means it's incomplete.

At one point there was much made of the "agglutinative" structure, so philogists simply dumped all the agglutinative languages in the same bag. At the same time they prohibited any claim of a relationship between an agglutinative and a non-agglutinative language.

The most popular sites tossed up by Google still follow the older standards.

So, what we have are two people talking about the same thing but using different bodies of research.

[muawiyah]

None of which means I cannot make spelling errors. Philogist = Philologist.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe you coined a new word. A philogist is someone is someone who is happy just getting the gist of something--just reading the headlines, or reading a 50-word abstract rather than the entire article.

I believe "Nostratic" is the name given to the supposed super-language family that some researchers claim to have reconstructed, going back thousands of years earlier than the stage of Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Afro-Asiatic.

[muawiyah]

http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm provides some interesting reading. Everything here is from the viewpoint of a Sumerian language scholar looking "out", and not just that of a scholar of languages looking "in".

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know what John Halloran's background is or much about the Sumerian language, other than that it is completely unrelated to the languages which were its immediate neighbors in ancient Mesopotamia, Akkadian and Elamite. Akkadian was a Semitic language. As far as I know they have never found any language which is related to Sumerian...obviously there could have been some which died out before they were ever reduced to writing.

[SunkenCiv]

The Vikings keyword will show just a few topics about the groovy teeth, I guess it's about four? Anyway, here's something else perhaps of interest, if you like Vikings. :')

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