German Indologist claims to have decoded Indus scripts

ZeeNews ^ | February 7, 2007 | Unsigned

[SunkenCiv]

I couldn't agree more.

[USMMA_83]

If something written more than 7000 years ago says, It's Bush's fault." You'd better agree it's Bush's fault.

[omnivore]

I just was reading a new book put out by National Geographic, about using DNA analysis to figure out who's related to who. From what I recall, the southern Indians (Dravidians?) were from the same group that migrated out of Africa first, most of whom ended up becoming Australian Aborigines, but some of whom dropped out along the walk along the south coast of Asia and became the first Indians.

A while later, a different tribe came out of Africa (lots of tribes came out over thousands of years), and after spending a while in central Asia, split off, with some going south into India (Aryans) and Iran (Persians) and others going into Europe. Hence the northern Indian and Persian (Farsi) languages are part of the Indo-European language system.

My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?

[Cacique]

btt

[VxH]

[If something written more than 7000 years ago says, It's Bush's fault." You'd better agree it's Bush's fault.]

Well, it may have been a Bush - but not necessarily one named George.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush

[RebelTex]

"My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?"

Veni, Vidi, Vinci.

;^D

[Gengis Khan]

"arrival of the Aryan invaders of India"

Aryan invasion has already long been proven to be a false claim. It got its popularity due to Hitlers propaganda. There is no truth in it.

[chilepepper]

uh oh - the archeologist has dicovered that the famous Indus "spiritual book" How to serve man is actually a cook book... who knew?

[Gengis Khan]

"Indo-European languages show up in India?"

It went to Europe from India and not vice versa. The oldest languages in the family of Indo-European languages are to be found in India not Europe.

[Gengis Khan]

The oldest of the "Aryan" language is Sanskrit (not Farsi or any other European Language) which was/is spoken in India. It was spoken at a time when many of the languages like Farsi, Latin, Celtic, Greek were not even born. Most of the Indo-European Languages derive their grammar from Sanskrit. Sanskrit is also the language in which the Vedas (including the Rig Veda) were written.

[Verginius Rufus]

"Aryan" is said to come from the Sanskrit word arya meaning "noble," and to be related to the word "Iran." The word was around for a long time before Hitler cooked up his racial nonsense. The word should be avoided in European contexts because of the Nazi abuse of the word, but that had nothing to do with India.

Martin Bernal (of Black Athena fame), incidentally, uses the term "Aryan" to besmirch mainstream views he disagrees with, trying to insinuate that those who hold those views are racists, but that is just Communist agitprop on his part.

I am not an expert on the history of India, but if there were people in India 3000 years ago who called themselves by a term resembling the word Aryan, the Nazi misuse of the same word 3000 years later would not change it.

[Gengis Khan]

Madame Blavatsky was the one who first drew a connection between the "Vedic/Aryan" culture in India and its connection in Europe, which is where Hitler picked up from.

Look up Madame Blavatsky on google.

[Verginius Rufus]

The other Indo-European languages, outside of India, did not derive their grammar from Sanskrit--they are sister languages, not daughter languages. It would be like saying Portuguese and French derive their numbers from Romanian. The words are indeed similar in all three languages, but it's because they all derive from Latin. Sanskrit is already many centuries removed from the parent language, "Proto-Indo-European," which was probably never written (at least no texts in it have been found).

[Gengis Khan]

Sanskrit is far more ancient then any languages you see on the Proto-Indo European Language chart. And its the only language that has a link with most other language on the chart. In fact European languages inherit the grammar from Sanskrit (not the words). I have studied German and Sanskrit and can attest to that. If there is really any "Proto-Indo European" it is Sanskrit or its primitive form (some call it Brahmi).

[saalebhosdike]

:-D

Darth Veda...

[Andrew Byler]

"Aryan" is said to come from the Sanskrit word arya meaning "noble," and to be related to the word "Iran."

I've heard it is also related to the word Eire for Ireland, and the word Ehren in German.

[SunkenCiv]

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