Linguistics and the Word - 3 of 4

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Last time we spoke of the very clear and poignant fact that what we know of the history of human language does not support evolutionary long age development and hunter-gatherer scenarios. Today, let’s look a little more closely at how language is analyzed and what the most knowledgeable in the field are saying today.

Modern, scientific study of language has categorized as 1) proto-Indo-European (which is branched to Indo-Iranian, after Jones’ studies in 1786, Baltic, Slavic, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Celtic, Roman, and Germanic); 2) Afro-Asiatic (Egyptian, Semitic, Cushatic, Berber and Chad); 3) Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin and all Chinese speaking); 4) Dravidian (Southern Indian)and 5) Ural (Northern Asia and parts of Europe) divisions. Let’s leave out the more recent, American languages.