ONLY ONE HUMAN LANGUAGE
By
CHARLES LEE GRAVES
2016
Following upon his classic studies published by Bochum University Press (Brockmeyer –‘Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics Nos.BPX 34, 37,38 - 1994-1997) Dr. Graves arrives at the conclusion that both of the main language macrofamilies elaborated by the Serbian and Russian linguists, namely ‘Nostratic’ (Vladislav Illich-Svitich) and ‘Dene Sino-Caucasian’ (Sergei Starostin, and others), were encapsulated in the Australian Aboriginal language. Australian Aboriginal represents thus the undivided language of homo sapiens – which in the course of human history had been separated into at least three major language macrofamilies: (Nostratic, Sino-Caucasian and Sibero-Amerindian) as human beings penetrated into Asia from Africa and the Middle East.
One of the precursors to this thesis was Graves’ paralleling of the pristine Kashmiri language with the Malay language of the pre-20th century, namely that spoken in Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia etc., illustrating a West-East progression of the Kashmiri-Malay type language into the South Seas. But the original language of homo sapiens was carried many millennia before by human beings crossing the Indian sub-continent on their way south-eastward. The aboriginal people in Australia preserved this undivided human language.
This new book of 393 pp shows the parallels in onomastics between Kashmiri and Malay languages; between Kampuchean and Thai with the macrofamily ‘Sino-Caucasian’ (SC*) and illustrates certain theses by articles showing further parallel language terminology in the language kaleidoscope of the Kashmir-Karakoram area – a pivotal area of language differentiation. Here the presumably ‘Nostratic’ languages such as Kashmiri existed side by side with ‘Sino-Caucasian’, i.e. the Bruushaaski language which is close to proto-Tibetan and proto-Chinese. Apparently a ‘Nostratic’ type such as Kashmiri traveled eastwards into Malaysia through the spread of Shaivism. But an undivided homo sapiens language had already reached South-East Asia with human immigration into Australia many millennia before.
Because Australian Aboriginal language includes terminology fitting both the ‘Nostratic’ and the ‘Sino-Caucasian’ pattern and also because it demonstrates striking parallels with the Ainu language of Hokkaido (Japan) (within the Sibero-Amerindian language macrofamily) it appears the Australian Aboriginal language is an example of the original language of homo sapiens.
Dr. Graves has added one further proof of his thesis in the final part of his book concerning proto-syllables. He elaborates a common homo sapiens set of syllables, each one illustrating a certain emotional or rational preamble in the mind, mouth and lips. These emotions include love, moderate affection, opposition, mild opposition, explaining; controlling, quizzical, music, describing, and expressing. He shows the similarity of the use of these syllables in four widely divergent languages namely Indo-European (‘Nostratic’); Bruushaaski (‘Sino-Caucasian’), Japanese (‘Sibero-Amerindian’) and Australian Aboriginal. There seems to be a coherence in how persons using these divergent languages used the same syllables expressing the same thought or emotion. In other words, at the beginning of the ‘out of Africa’ period of development, homo sapiens spoke syllables illustrating emotions or thought in the same way as homo sapiens representatives (i.e. modern humans) speak them today. There are not a multitude of languages developed by homo sapiens as it moved out of Africa into Asia but one common language (spoken today in an elaborated form by Australian Aboriginal people) which, in history, branched into various complicated language macrofamilies (‘Nostratic’, ’Sino-Caucasian’, ‘Sibero-Amerindian’). But the same proto-structure of the use of mind, mouth and lips (i.e. the process of emotion and thought producing the proto-syllables) pervades them all.
Besides the author has shown that that the names of early Egyptian divinities illustrates his thesis that proto-syllables naming these gods fall into his categories for syllables indicating ‘loving’ or ‘controlling’ (which would be appropriate as names of divinities).
This book will be followed later this year by Asia-Amerindia (circa. 350 pp.). It will show the parallels between the mainly Siberian languages and those spoken in the Americas, proving that homo sapiens might have crossed into America over 40,000 years ago (although the major emigrations happened around 12,000 years ago in the ‘Clovis’ period). Comparisons will be made between Amerindian languages and the major Siberian languages such as Saami, Samoyed, Ainu, Yukaghir, Koryak, Chukchee, Itelmen and with Sino-Caucasian (SC*) affiliates such as Bruushaaski, Basque, Ket’ and Sino-Tibetan. Nostratic (N*) parallels will also be shown.
It appears, as with Ainu and Australian Aboriginal that the Yanonami of Upper Orinoco river in Venezuela and other Amazonian Amerindians have preserved languages representative of both Nostratic (N*) and Sino-Caucasian (/SC*) as well as Sibero-Amerindian macrofamilies of languages, thus keeping the pristine undivided language of homo sapiens.
We have looked at Yanonami religious terminology and studied the proto-syllables involved in it. Like the early Egyptians in our book Only One Human Language (2016) Yanonami religious terms prove our thesis about the unity of proto-syllables used by the homo sapiens across the ages and throughout the world.
Only One Human Language (393 pp.) is available now and Asia-Amerindia will be available before the end of 2016 both through IVER publications and Createspsace.
Photograph: ‘rock painting’ in Australia photographed by Graeme Churchard, Bristol (UK)
By
CHARLES LEE GRAVES
2016
Following upon his classic studies published by Bochum University Press (Brockmeyer –‘Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics Nos.BPX 34, 37,38 - 1994-1997) Dr. Graves arrives at the conclusion that both of the main language macrofamilies elaborated by the Serbian and Russian linguists, namely ‘Nostratic’ (Vladislav Illich-Svitich) and ‘Dene Sino-Caucasian’ (Sergei Starostin, and others), were encapsulated in the Australian Aboriginal language. Australian Aboriginal represents thus the undivided language of homo sapiens – which in the course of human history had been separated into at least three major language macrofamilies: (Nostratic, Sino-Caucasian and Sibero-Amerindian) as human beings penetrated into Asia from Africa and the Middle East.
One of the precursors to this thesis was Graves’ paralleling of the pristine Kashmiri language with the Malay language of the pre-20th century, namely that spoken in Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia etc., illustrating a West-East progression of the Kashmiri-Malay type language into the South Seas. But the original language of homo sapiens was carried many millennia before by human beings crossing the Indian sub-continent on their way south-eastward. The aboriginal people in Australia preserved this undivided human language.
This new book of 393 pp shows the parallels in onomastics between Kashmiri and Malay languages; between Kampuchean and Thai with the macrofamily ‘Sino-Caucasian’ (SC*) and illustrates certain theses by articles showing further parallel language terminology in the language kaleidoscope of the Kashmir-Karakoram area – a pivotal area of language differentiation. Here the presumably ‘Nostratic’ languages such as Kashmiri existed side by side with ‘Sino-Caucasian’, i.e. the Bruushaaski language which is close to proto-Tibetan and proto-Chinese. Apparently a ‘Nostratic’ type such as Kashmiri traveled eastwards into Malaysia through the spread of Shaivism. But an undivided homo sapiens language had already reached South-East Asia with human immigration into Australia many millennia before.
Because Australian Aboriginal language includes terminology fitting both the ‘Nostratic’ and the ‘Sino-Caucasian’ pattern and also because it demonstrates striking parallels with the Ainu language of Hokkaido (Japan) (within the Sibero-Amerindian language macrofamily) it appears the Australian Aboriginal language is an example of the original language of homo sapiens.
Dr. Graves has added one further proof of his thesis in the final part of his book concerning proto-syllables. He elaborates a common homo sapiens set of syllables, each one illustrating a certain emotional or rational preamble in the mind, mouth and lips. These emotions include love, moderate affection, opposition, mild opposition, explaining; controlling, quizzical, music, describing, and expressing. He shows the similarity of the use of these syllables in four widely divergent languages namely Indo-European (‘Nostratic’); Bruushaaski (‘Sino-Caucasian’), Japanese (‘Sibero-Amerindian’) and Australian Aboriginal. There seems to be a coherence in how persons using these divergent languages used the same syllables expressing the same thought or emotion. In other words, at the beginning of the ‘out of Africa’ period of development, homo sapiens spoke syllables illustrating emotions or thought in the same way as homo sapiens representatives (i.e. modern humans) speak them today. There are not a multitude of languages developed by homo sapiens as it moved out of Africa into Asia but one common language (spoken today in an elaborated form by Australian Aboriginal people) which, in history, branched into various complicated language macrofamilies (‘Nostratic’, ’Sino-Caucasian’, ‘Sibero-Amerindian’). But the same proto-structure of the use of mind, mouth and lips (i.e. the process of emotion and thought producing the proto-syllables) pervades them all.
Besides the author has shown that that the names of early Egyptian divinities illustrates his thesis that proto-syllables naming these gods fall into his categories for syllables indicating ‘loving’ or ‘controlling’ (which would be appropriate as names of divinities).
This book will be followed later this year by Asia-Amerindia (circa. 350 pp.). It will show the parallels between the mainly Siberian languages and those spoken in the Americas, proving that homo sapiens might have crossed into America over 40,000 years ago (although the major emigrations happened around 12,000 years ago in the ‘Clovis’ period). Comparisons will be made between Amerindian languages and the major Siberian languages such as Saami, Samoyed, Ainu, Yukaghir, Koryak, Chukchee, Itelmen and with Sino-Caucasian (SC*) affiliates such as Bruushaaski, Basque, Ket’ and Sino-Tibetan. Nostratic (N*) parallels will also be shown.
It appears, as with Ainu and Australian Aboriginal that the Yanonami of Upper Orinoco river in Venezuela and other Amazonian Amerindians have preserved languages representative of both Nostratic (N*) and Sino-Caucasian (/SC*) as well as Sibero-Amerindian macrofamilies of languages, thus keeping the pristine undivided language of homo sapiens.
We have looked at Yanonami religious terminology and studied the proto-syllables involved in it. Like the early Egyptians in our book Only One Human Language (2016) Yanonami religious terms prove our thesis about the unity of proto-syllables used by the homo sapiens across the ages and throughout the world.
Only One Human Language (393 pp.) is available now and Asia-Amerindia will be available before the end of 2016 both through IVER publications and Createspsace.
Photograph: ‘rock painting’ in Australia photographed by Graeme Churchard, Bristol (UK)
