The Egyptians spoke of their hieroglyphic system of writing not as their own invention, but as "the language of the gods." (Lenormant and Cheval, "Anc.
The Greeks converted the Phœnician alphabet, which was partly consonantal, into one purely phonetic--"a perfect instrument for the expression of spoken language." The w was also added to the Phœnician alphabet.
We have also, in common with other European languages, added a double U, that is, VV, or W, to represent the w sound.
They still adhere with striking pertinacity to the language they spoke when Columbus landed on San Salvador; and it is believed that that language is the same as the one inscribed on the most ancient monuments of their country.
Señor Pimental says of them, "The Indians have preserved this idiom with such tenacity that they will speak no other; it is necessary for the whites to address them in their own language to communicate with them." It is therefore probable, as their alphabet did not pass from nation to nation, as did the Phœnician, that it has not departed so widely from the original forms received from the Colhuas.
We have seen in the table of alphabets that in every language, from our own day to the time of the Phœnicians, o has been represented by a circle or a circle within a circle.
We find in the archaic Ethiopian, a language as old as the Egyptian, and which represents the Cushite branch of the Atlantean stock, the sign for n (na) is ; in archaic Phœnician it comes still closer to the S shape, thus, , or in this form, ; we have but to curve these angles to approximate it very closely to the Maya n; in Troy this form was found, .
Can anything be more significant than to find the serpent the sign for n in Central America, and in all these Old World languages?
And even after the lapse of so many thousand years most remarkable resemblances have been found to exist between the Chiapenec language and the Hebrew, the living representative of the Phœnician tongue.
In the light of such a discovery the inscriptions upon the monuments of Central America assume incalculable importance; they take us back to a civilization far anterior to the oldest known in Europe; they represent the language of antediluvian times.
THE tendency of scientific thought in ethnology is in the direction of giving more and more importance to the race characteristics, such as height, color of the hair, eyes and skin, and the formation of the skull and body generally, than to language.
The language possessed by a people may be merely the result of conquest or migration.
For instance, in the United States to-day, white, black, and red men, the descendants of French, Spanish, Italians, Mexicans, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Africans, all speak the English language, and by the test of language they are all Englishmen; and yet none of them are connected by birth or descent with the country where that language was developed.
160): "The language of the ancient Egyptians, though it cannot be classed in the Semitic family with Hebrew, has important points of correspondence, whether due to the long intercourse between the two races in Egypt or to some deeper ancestral connection; and such analogies also appear in the Berber languages of North Africa."
"The words Atlas and Atlantic have no satisfactory etymology in any language known to Europe.
They are not Greek, and cannot be referred to any known language of the Old World.
But in the Nahuatl language we find immediately the radical a, atl, which signifies water, war, and the top of the head.
How can we, without Atlantis, explain the presence of the Basques in Europe, who have no lingual affinities with any other race on the continent of Europe, but whose language is similar to the languages of America?
Farrar, referring to the Basque language, says:
"What is certain about it is, that its structure is polysynthetic, like the languages of America.
The fact is indisputable, and is eminently noteworthy, that while the affinities of the Basque roots have never been conclusively elucidated, there has never been any doubt that this isolated language, preserving its identity in a western corner of Europe, between two mighty kingdoms, resembles, in its grammatical structure, the aboriginal languages of the vast opposite continent (America), and those alone." ("Families of Speech," p.
and enumerating their first generations, we are told, "All seem to have spoken one language, and to have lived in great peace, black men and white together.
The "Popol Vuh" proceeds to tell how this first home of the race became over-populous, and how the people under Balam-Quitze migrated; how their language became "confounded," in other words, broken up into dialects, in consequence of separation; and how some of the people "went to the East, and many came hither to Guatemala." (Ibid., p.
The obvious conclusion from these facts is, that at some time previous to these migrations a people speaking a language of a superior and complicated structure broke up their society, and, under some strong impulse, poured out in different directions, and gradually established themselves in all the lands now inhabited by the Caucasian race.
While I do not attach much weight to verbal similarities in the languages of the two continents, nevertheless there are some that are very remarkable.
In the Nahua language pan, or pani, signifies "equality to that which is above," and Pentecatl was the progenitor of all beings.
Richard Owen says, "Unprepossessed and sober experience teaches that arts, language, literature are of slow growth, the results of gradual development."
23), sees the unity of the Indo-European races manifest in their languages, literature, and philosophies, and argues that these pre-eminent traits are "the great marks of an original model," and that when we meet with them "fifteen, twenty, thirty centuries before our era, in an Aryan, an Egyptian, a Chinese, they represent the work of a great many ages, perhaps of several myriads of centuries.
I may be reminded of the Gauls, Goths, and Britons; but these were not savages, they possessed written languages, poetry, oratory, and history; they were controlled by religious ideas; they believed in God and the immortality of the soul, and in a state of rewards and punishments after death.
Atlantis and the western continent had from an immemorial age held intercourse with each other: the great nations of America were simply colonies from Atlantis, sharing in its civilization, language, religion, and blood.
The learned Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg translates from the Aztec language of the "Codex Chimalpopoca" the following Flood legend:
The Deluge of Genesis is a Phœnician, Semitic, or Hebraic legend, and yet, strange to say, the name of Noah, which occurs in it, bears no appropriate meaning in those tongues, but is derived from Aryan sources; its fundamental root is Na, to which in all the Aryan language is attached the meaning of water--νάειν, to flow; νᾶμα, water; Nympha, Neptunus, water deities.
Presently their languages were confused, and, not being able to understand each other, they went to different parts of the earth.
"The Toltecs, consisting of seven friends, with their wives, who understood the same language, came to these parts, having first passed great land and seas, having lived in caves, and having endured great hardships in order to reach this land; .
Major Lynd found the following resemblances between the Dakota tongue and the languages of the Old World:
According to a passage in Manetho, much suspected, however, of being an interpolation, Thoth, or Hermes Trismegistus, had himself, before the cataclysm, inscribed on stelæ, in hieroglyphical and sacred language, the principles of all knowledge.
Tom reveals that Neanderthals communicated primarily through telepathy, but they also had a form of vocal language consisting of sounds and tones.
These vocalizations were not structured like modern language but conveyed meaning through tone and context.
When asked about written language, Tom says that Neanderthals did not write in sentences but used drawings and symbols to communicate.
They communicated more through gestures and telepathy rather than spoken language.
In his majestic and poetical language Selestor, to whom we are indebted for the contents of this book, has pictured for us the highly civilized state of Atlantis’ inhabitants, that in several sciences were even farther advanced than our nation is today, especially in mentonomy—a study of the mind.
Their language teemed in syllables, and names cut short with consonants were theirs.
The Atlantian language nearer thine * than any other tongue extant.
music is the language of the heights!
Their language but a motion of the lips, yet brain cast out its thoughts so plain to those about that inner sense was touched and tuned to harmony of thought and sound.
To sense spake melody in sigh of winds that swept the plains on planets, verdure blessed, and banks of bloom cast out their fragrant speech to souls attuned to language of the beings deemed inanimate, yet holding life in every fiber, these.
Aye, life in color, too, and shape and language which the toiling soul did learn and gathered knowledge where it only wonder held before.
Many lands thus lent their methods to the shaping of the language—written speech—that in the years gave fame to old Atlantis.
No language save their own the women early knew; it was decided wiser to withhold the knowledge gleaned by man, for woman was considered but a toy.
Atlantis knew the secret of the past, as ye today know language writ on page familiar.
Sun language read they.
"We laud thee; God of all the gods who doth protect and hold in bonds of safety us—and ours—our land, our captain and this noble barque." So clearly rang across the water loud this cry when stars denoted midnight, or great Orion swinging far in space, and in his language held the token of a storm, or Venus dipped her golden head and Mars swung boldly into sight.
No graven language held, save marks to warn.
Ah, man in husk of flesh, think not that Earth hath seen the all old Egypt's bosom holds, for thou shalt read in language of the past a history which doth make thee seem a child.
The original name of Babylon was "Babilim" in the Akkadian language.
Therefore, the name Babylon came into broader use through Greek influence, though its roots lie in the Akkadian language.
The words “Babel” and “Babylon” in the Hebrew language share the same root word, בָּבֶל (Bavel).
The story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9 is often interpreted as an etiology (a story explaining the origin of something), particularly explaining the origin of different languages and the name of the city of Babylon.
The narrative plays on the Hebrew word “Bavel,” associating it with the Hebrew verb בלל (balal), meaning “to confuse” or “to mix,” as in the story, God confuses the language of the people so they cannot understand one another.
This term is directly transliterated from the Hebrew בָּבֶל (Bavel), maintaining the name’s phonetic qualities while adapting it to the Greek language.
Third, the similarity of language and of ethnological type.
Language.—The Basque language stands alone amongst European tongues, having affinity with none of them.
According to Farrar, "there never has been any doubt that this isolated language, preserving its identity in a western corner of Europe, between two mighty kingdoms, resembles in its structure the aboriginal languages of the vast opposite continent (America) and those alone" (Families of Speech, p.
One more point may be noticed, viz., the extraordinary resemblance between many words in the Hebrew language and words bearing precisely the same meaning in the tongue of the Chiapenecs—a branch of the Maya race, and amongst the most ancient in Central America.
The similarity of language among the various savages races of the Pacific islands has been used as an argument by writers on this subject.
The existence of similar languages among races separated by leagues of ocean, across which in historic time they are known to have had no means of transport, is certainly an argument in favour of their descent from a single race occupying a single continent, but the argument cannot be used here, for the continent in question was not Atlantis, but the still earlier Lemuria.
The Popul Vuh, speaking of the first home of the Guatemalan race, says that "black and white men together" lived in this happy land "in great peace," speaking "one language." (See Bancroft's Native Races, p.
547.) The Popul Vuh goes on to relate how the people migrated from their ancestral home, how their language became altered, and how some went to the east, while other travelled west (to Central America).[9]
In like manner in both hemispheres the worship of the sun-disk or circle, and of the serpent, was universal, and more surprising still is the similarity of the word signifying "God" in the principal languages of east and west.
Education.—A few words on the subject of language will fitly prelude a consideration of the training in the schools and colleges of Atlantis.
During the first map period Toltec was the universal language, not only throughout the continent but in the western islands and that part of the eastern continent which recognized the emperor's rule.
The Tlavatli tongue was the basis used by the Turanians, who introduced such modifications that an entirely different language was in time produced; while the[45] Semites and Akkadians, adopting a Toltec ground-work, modified it in their respective ways, and so produced two divergent varieties.
Thus in the later days of Poseidonis there were several entirely different languages—all however belonging to the agglutinative type—for it was not till Fifth Race days that the descendants of the Semites and Akkadians developed inflectional speech.
All through the ages, however, the Toltec language fairly maintained its purity, and the same tongue that was spoken in Atlantis in the days of its splendour was used, with but slight alterations, thousands of years later in Mexico and Peru.
I have also followed Dr Ottema’s plan of printing the original Frisian opposite to the translation, so that any reader possessing a knowledge of the language may verify the correctness of the translation.
over de Linden, Chief Superintendent of the Royal Dockyard at the Helder, possesses a very ancient manuscript, which has been inherited and preserved in his family from time immemorial, without any one knowing whence it came or what it contained, owing to both the language and the writing being unknown.
The form and the origin of the writing is so minutely and fully described in the first part of the book, as it could not be in any other language.
The ng, which as a nasal sound has no particular mark in any other Western language, is an indivisible conjunction; the th is soft, as in English, and is sometimes replaced by d; the gs is seldom met with—I believe only in the word segse, to say, in modern Fries sidse, pronounced sisze.
The language is very old Fries, still older and purer than the Fries Rjuchtboek or old Fries laws, differing from that both in form and spelling, so that it appears to be an entirely distinct dialect, and shows that the locality of the language must have been (as it was spoken) between the Vlie and the Scheldt.
As a specimen of antiquity in language and writing, I believe I may venture to say that this book is unique of its kind.
The Geertmen were known by only one of the Greek writers, Strabo, who mentions them as Γερμᾶνες, differing totally and entirely from the Βραχμᾶνες in manners, language, and religion.
I will conclude with one more remark regarding the language.
Those who have been able to take only a superficial [xxiii]view of the manuscript have been struck by the polish of the language, and its conformity with the present Friesland language and Dutch.
But, I ask, is, then, the language of Homer much less polished than that of Plato or Demosthenes?
It is true that language alters with time, and is continually subject to slight variations, owing to which language is found to be different at different epochs.
This change in the language in this manuscript accordingly gives ground for important observations to philologists.
It is not only that of the eight writers who have successively worked at the book, each is recognisable by slight peculiarities in style, language, and spelling; but more particularly between the two parts of the book, between which an interval of more than two centuries occurs, a striking difference of the language is visible, which shows what a slowly progressive regulation it has undergone in that period of time.
At a later date a forgery is equally impossible, for the simple reason that no one was acquainted with the language.
Except Grimm, Richthofen, and Hettema, no one can be named sufficiently versed in that branch of philology, or who had studied the language so as to be able to write in it.
Whoever doubts this let him begin by showing where, when, by whom, and with what object such a forgery could be committed, and let him show in modern times the fellow of this paper, this writing, and this language.
When these pretended prisoners had learned our language, they persuaded the dukes and nobles that they should become subject to the Magy—that then their sons would succeed to them without having to be elected.
When they were well established, the Magyars sought our friendship, they praised our language and customs, our cattle and iron weapons, which they would willingly have exchanged for their gold and silver ornaments, and they always kept their people within their own boundaries, and that outwitted our watchfulness.
In order to make a favourable impression, they had themselves called in our language followers of the truth; but they had better have been called abstainers from the truth, or, in short, “Triuwenden,” as our seafaring people afterwards called them.
At last they landed at the Punjab, called in our language the Five Rivers, because five rivers flow together to the sea.
Formerly all the cases in [109]Athens were pleaded in our language, but afterwards in both languages, and at last in the native language only.
I have not had much to do with them, but as far as I have seen they have mostly retained their language and customs.
Those who descend from the Greeks speak a bad language, and have not much to boast of in their manners.
They had to listen to some hard language; and to get rid of him they gave him a quantity of jewels, but they dared not openly acknowledge him.
So they have learned more bad language than good manners.
Friso knows the tricks of the Gauls, whose language he speaks; he can therefore watch against their craftiness.
His eldest son, whom he had by his wife Swethirte, he named Adel; and although he strove with all his might to prevent the building or restoring any citadels, he sent Adel to the citadel of Texland in order to make himself better acquainted with our laws, language, and customs.
When Wr-alda gave children to the mothers of mankind, he gave one language to every tongue and to all lips.
As he knew that happiness and holiness would flee from the earth when wickedness could overcome virtue, he has attached to the language an equitable property.
As thus our language opens the way to happiness and blessedness, and thus helps to guard against evil inclinations, it is rightly named the language of the gods, and all those by whom it is held in honour derive honour from it.
In their wickedness they went [217]so far as to invent other languages, so that they might speak secretly in anybody’s presence of their wicked and unworthy affairs without betraying themselves by stammering, and without showing a blush upon their countenances.
The wanton girls and effeminate youths who consorted with the immoral priests and princes, taught the new language to their companions, and thus spread it among the people till God’s language was clean forgotten.
If they had only invented one language things might possibly have still gone on well; but they invented as many languages as there are states, so that one people can no more understand another people than a cow a dog, or a wolf a sheep.
If you wish that you alone should inherit the earth, you must never allow any language but God’s language to pass your lips, and take care that your own language remains free from outlandish sounds.
The language of the East Schoonlanders has been perverted by the vile Magyars, and the language of the followers of Kaltana has been spoiled by the dirty Gauls.
Now, we have been weak enough to admit among us the returned followers of Hellenia, but I anxiously fear that they will reward our weakness by debasing our pure language.
Many things have happened to us, but among all the citadels that have been disturbed and destroyed in the bad time, Irtha has preserved Fryasburgt uninjured; and I may remark that Frya’s or God’s language has always remained here untainted.
If foreigners come to buy ironwares from you, and want to talk and bargain, they must come back to God’s language.
If they learn God’s language, then the words, “to be free” and “to have justice,” will come to them, and glimmer and glitter in their brains to a perfect light, and that flame will destroy all bad princes and hypocritical dirty priests.
Regarding the Gedrosten: They have been mixed with other people, and speak a variety of languages.
The emergence of light language is presented as one expression of this new way of being, where individuals connect to divine energy and channel it through sound.
Additionally, the speaker mentions a song that channels light language, invoking a connection to the "Holy Mothers," and invites listeners to experience a soul memory through the music.
The Andromedans use multiple languages, which they describe as closely tied to music and intonation.
They explain that languages, including those on Earth, are connected by similar sounds arranged differently.
Some Earth languages, such as certain Indian languages, have origins in the stars, but this is a topic for another discussion.
Symbolic language is used to describe the result, stating that these races will need to seek permission to proceed in the future.
Yurid reportedly began communicating through Nelson, explaining his background and sharing some words in what Nelson described as the Atlantean language.
These experiences are subject to distortion by the limitations of human language and understanding.
Watts suggests that Jesus, having been raised in a specific religious environment, expressed his spiritual insights in the language and framework of his time.
He learned the language of the extraterrestrials and witnessed a war in the sky.
He began to explore mathematics as a spiritual language and published several books reflecting his newfound understanding of the interconnectedness of mathematics, philosophy, and life.
The speaker highlights the linguistic and cultural adaptations that took place as the Philistines settled in Canaan, likely adopting the local language of Phoenician.
This may include altering body language, attitude, energy levels, and even clothing.
From Plato’s description we know Solon and the priests of Egypt were not familiar with it, although they knew it “sparkled like fire.” In ancient Greek, the language of Solon, the word chalkos, which is the basis of the word orichalcum, applied to all metals, therefore orichalcum literally meant “gold metal.”
Vagrein suggested that additional clues, such as the language of the communities Jessie would be teaching, could further narrow the search.
Ra describes the fourth density with approximations, as the language does not adequately cover the reality of this density.
The fine language I had intended to use was lost, and instead of trying to regain it, I merely said:
This pleased Menax greatly, and he proudly said:"Zailm, thy language pleases me!
I have shown in the chapter in relation to Peru that all the languages of the Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites are varieties of one aboriginal speech. The centre of the Aryan migrations (according to popular opinion) within the Historical Period was Armenia.
Linguistic Unity: The author asserts that all languages of the Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites are varieties of a single original language.
The linguistic argument, suggesting a common origin of languages among Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites, is used to reinforce the idea of a shared origin for these groups.
Linguistic Unity: While there are linguistic connections among Indo-European languages, the claim that all Hamitic, Semitic, and Japhetic languages stem from a single original language is a broad generalization that lacks support from modern linguistics.
Thereupon the barbarians returned derisive language and declared that they would come upon his land and destroy his people with the sword.
It occurred to me that the fact of the lady's reply being couched in the Poseid language was indicative of her possession of a good education.
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: The narrator mentions studying various languages and cultures, including those of other nations, indicating a society that values linguistic ability and cross-cultural knowledge.
Suernis - A strange country mentioned in the context of studying languages.
Necropanic - Another civilization or culture related to the languages studied by the narrator.
United States of America - The country where the narrator lived and became proficient in multiple languages.
Then again, philology was almost as much so; my ability to acquire foreign languages was not inconsiderable, as I had found from studying a little volume descriptive of a land known as Suernis, a strange country, and of the language of which many examples were given; these I had without effort learned perfectly from once reading.
As co-efficients I purposed thoroughly to ground myself in synthetic and analytical literature, not alone of my native Poseid, but also that of the Suerni and Necropanic languages.
It so much more firmly fixed my linguistic leanings that, while a citizen of the United States of America, I was a master not alone of my native tongue, but also of thirteen other modern languages, such as French, German and Spanish, Chinese, several dialectal varieties of Hindustanie, and Sanskrit as a sort, of mental relaxation.