[farmfriend]

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[muawiyah]

The reporter made a very serious error. There are several non-Indo-European languages other than Basque spoken in Europe.

A partial list would include Albanian, 9 different Saami languages, Turkish, Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish. No doubt Arabic is spoken regularly among the recently immigrated Arabs and North Africans. London and Manchester England probably have at least one newspaper published in a Dravidian language.

Within the expected lifetime of a baby born today, though, it is entirely possible that all languages on Earth will collapse into a single dominant language.

[Charles Henrickson]

Cognates for the word wheel exist in many branches of the Indo-European family tree, and linguists are confident that they can reconstruct the ancestral word in proto-Indo-European. It is, they say, "k'ek'los," the presumed forebear of words like "chakras," meaning wheel or circle in Sanskrit, "kuklos," meaning wheel or circle in Greek, as well as the English word "wheel."

Aramaic for "wheel" is galgal, and Hebrew is galgal/gilgal. I'd have to look into it, but these could also be cognates. The hard "g" sound and the "k" sound are very close linguistically. (Both consonants are what are called "gutturals," and thus are very interchangeable.)

Hebrew and Aramaic are both Semitic languages, and so to find cognates among the languages listed is all the more striking.

[Chu Gary]

I will accept that we all probably trace to a single pair of humanoids, but I don't buy the idea that all languages trace to a common ancestor.

I suspect that as the illiterate population began to separate in search of game or an acceptable habitat, they then began to acquire a method of communication which evolved into a language. However, many languages die, and I suspect new languages begin which don't necessarily have a strong connection to any pre-existing language. Net, I suggest that there are at least several roots otherwise please explain the glaring differences in written languages of the West, the Mid East and Asia. Also, explain some of the languages of Africa which are totally dissimilar to any of the above.

[breakem]

thanx

[Drammach]

You may find this article interesting..

[DaiHuy]

"Once upon a time, there were very few human languages and perhaps only one,"

Seems that I have read that all the people of Earth spoke one language. Where was it I read that, oh yeah, The Bible.

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