BIG BANG of Language--a New observation
ANASAZI
THE BIG BANG OF ANCIENT LANGUAGE
By Don Smithana , 2009
Our modern civilizations have arisen not only from humble origins but from amazing and clever people of the past. What have the Linguists hidden from us as we now use the gift of language and documentation to move ahead at warp speed? Digital computers at last have made possible the organization and archiving of information which leads us to new understanding. Human use of writing has been a strong instrument to expanding science and technology. Before this invention, the use of verbal vocabulary provided people with history by use of mythology and religion. ---------Did the intelligence of sea-going people excel over those remaining on land? Surely, mistakes of building a house that collapses is not nearly as disastrous as building a boat that sinks. Young people learned vocally what today many students rely on books. Where to build a house or village could be easily implanted in pioneer children by explaining their villages placed as “Pottawatomie villages” such as described by the Algonquin nation of North America. It simply instructed the young men to build near “River place near rushing noisy waters and water crystal clear”. It avoided disease.
The New World that has been explored and recently documented in the 15th century can be a treasure house of information (and speculation). What a surprising laboratory of language is provided for us as the studies show an ancient residue of language has rained down upon these two large and isolated continents. Was there a BIG BANG of language that exploded sometime in the last 5000 years of world history? Do we see a residue derived from early maritime nations that had much more technology than is often given credit for?
Let’s look at the New World description for a dwelling, a house. I have looked with great interest at the use of such an important word. While many can see the use of Spanish CASA in the Americas, the earlier pre-Columbian use of the simpler word of IE /YE is more evident. The use extends from the Arctic to the Amazon and today is also current in East Asia. In the Dakotas a popular saying is “All of our Family” with the native version as “MI TAKU YE OYASHIN”. With modern translation a literal meaning is derived of “All my households, houses, and parents” where the ancient word for house is evident. This use for house is still evident today with the Kumeyaay of southern California.
More remote use is seen in the jungle of South America near the Amazon where the indigenous people are called the YE NO MONO (Yanomomo). According to the noted Anthropologist Dr. N. Chagnon and his studies at Northwestern University they described themselves as “People with things of the house”. Indeed, this is quite understandable using an ancient East Asian language. They have embedded themselves into this tropical rain forest and live a rather simple life although they extol their technology of having household artifacts as an improvement over other native tribes of the Amazon. They are proud of their “pots and pans”.
Another surprising place to find these dwellings is near the far north of the Arctic. The famous IGLOO describes with accuracy the structure that is used for a house, YE GALLO. This “House structure” is well known and often made with the most common material available, snow and ice. Early people often saw prominent features which were not “buildings” and thus became a “structure---GALLO”
In America’s colorful West the most impressive natural structures were observed and the location of these stone towers was called “OGALLALA-----IO GALLA LA” translated as “the place of stone structures”. What an impressive and strange sight rising up from the desert floor! In today’s cities it is the massive buildings which attract our attention, but to early people these natural “sky scrapers” were of immense interest and vital landmarks. An entire denomination of Native Americans have been identified using this description, the Ogallala Sioux.
The world has entered the Information Age which will impose changes as large if not larger than that of the Industrial Age before it. We are quickly losing our history which has often been preserved until now by language. It has been said that words become the threads that weave the marvelous colorful fabrics of successful civilizations. And we see here in the New World an admixture of several ancient maritime languages. They include Asiatic as well as Phoenician/ Akkadian probably going back well before Biblical times. We can wait no longer to recognize these intrepid explorers to the New World---their language1 can tell us a lot about them.
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From books by author:
DECODING AMERICA’S ANCIENT INDIAN LANGUAGES by Don Smithana
AMERICA----Land of the Rising Sun by Don Smithana
in English and Japanese (Tokuma Shoten--Tokyo)
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