Originally posted by gvret
What I am trying to point out tough is the connection ever so subtle between the proto languages of the aforementioned groups in your posts.
Actually, the linguists covered this... and both Amaratine and Hetman referred to that.
Another example I stumbled across is certain similarities between ancient greek and chinese. Now on the surface these two languages have nothing in common- check out these words though and you can draw your own conclusions. (Note thanks to my chinese friend I was able to draw comparisons).
Greek Chinese
hygea (health) yu (to heal)
goulia (sip of water) guliao (a little water)
yios (son) yi (son, descendent)
iskios, skiazomai (shadow, to be afraid) xia (to scare, shadow)
lera (monkey) lei ren (monkey)
Those are simply associations formed by there being only a limited number of sounds that a human can make. It takes more than 'this word sounds like this one and has a similar meaning' to make a connection.
Now, I understand that there are vast differences between various language families, what I am trying to pose though is that there has to be a connection between all the proto languages, if we find that we might be able to establish even the origin of the mother tongue.
As Hetman pointed out, the distance between us and that protolanguage (some 3-5 million years ago) is too far to be able to come up with what it was or to make any determination about what the sounds might have originally meant.
(the presence of the hyoid bone and a certain cranial capacity are needed for the ability for oral speech. www.anth.ucsb.edu...*&nh=9 )
