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L O W L A N D S - L - 18 April 2011 - Volume 01<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#C88900"><a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com">clarkedavid8@aol.com</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.15 (03) [EN]</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Between the two world wars, the Sun theory of
language development (much favoured by Kemal Ataturk and taught in Turkish
schools and universities for a time) held that all the world's languages were
descended from Turkish and that all words can be derived from Turkish roots:
e.g. the name of the river Amazon comes from the Turkish words "Ama"
(but) and "Uzun" (long). Turkish place names were changed to bring
them closer to what were held to be their original Turkish roots. I was onced
taught ancient Greek by a Greek woman who held similar beliefs about her own
language, so perhaps they are a feature of that part of the world.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">David Clarke</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc286.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Subject: History </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Dear Lowlanders, </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;"> ..... </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">(This article) asserts that recent findings point toward there
having been one proto language, i.e. one ancestor of all of today’s languages. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Mind you, this is by most considered fringe science. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc286.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: Language history </p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Thanks, David.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">There are such people with such
types of “theories.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">In the movie “My Big Fat Greek
Wedding,” the father of the bride, too, claims that you can give him any English
word and he will etymologize it back to Greek.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">This sort of thing tends to be
based on linguistic ignorance in conjunction with nationalism that feeds on supposedly
glorious bygone age.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">When he was serving as Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was
trying hard to rekindle confidence among Turks after the country’s period of being
“the sick man of Europe,” which ended with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. </p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">And then there are the terms
<i>indogermanisch</i> (German) and <i>Indo-Germaans</i> (Dutch) that are still being
used for “Indo-European” ...</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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