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- Feb. 25, 2021; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Language closest to English? Spanglish?
Friday, April 25, 2025
Africans discovered America: Olmecs
| Colossal Olmec stone head - Discovered at the La Venta site in Tabasco State, Mexico, 1945-55 |
| The mysterious giant stone heads of the Black Olmec Civilization of Mexico and Mesoamerica |
| San Lorenzo Monument 3 - The Black Olmecs of Africa, Xalapa (wiki) |
| La Venta [sacrificial?] Altar 5 (Ruben Charles) - The African Olmecs: were-jaguar |
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The African empire in America they tried to hide from us
| The Olmec: Original Black civilizations of Mexico and Mesoamerica (realhistoryww.com) |
| Los Olmecas ("the Olmecs") did not call themselves that but were dubbed much later. |
| Prof. Leo Wiener |
| Who were first Mesoamericans? Indigenous Mexicans blended with Africans? Drupal |
| We look alike? It's a total coincidence, Man. I've never been here. (Olmec Heads of Africa) |
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- Leo Wiener, Harvard University, circa 1920, via Black Untold Stories, April 20, 2025; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
DNA: origin of Indo-Euro languages
6,500-year-old DNA reveals origin of Indo-European languages spoken by half the world
Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, hunting in its rivers and across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, without writing, and without essential technology like the wheel. Yet, their language would one day become the foundation for nearly half the world’s spoken tongues, from English (British) and Spanish (Latin) to Hindi (Sanskrit) and Persian (Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages).
Who were these people? And how did their language spread so far and wide? A landmark pair of studies may finally have uncovered answers hidden in ancient DNA. By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) people, who lived around 6,500 years ago.
This discovery not only solves a centuries-old linguistic puzzle but also reveals how the CLV people’s descendants — the nomadic Yamnaya culture — carried their language across continents, shaping the course of human history.
The hunt for the first Indo-European speakers
For decades, linguists and archeologists have debated the origins of Indo-European languages. Some argued that early farmers in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) spread the language as they expanded their agricultural practices.
Others pointed to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that roamed the steppes of Russia and Ukraine around 5,000 years ago, as the likely pioneers of the root language.
Research led by geneticist David Reich of Harvard University bridges these theories. By analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons, the researchers found that the CLV people, who lived between the Caucasus Mountains and the lower Volga River, were the ancestors of both the Yamnaya and the early Anatolian farmers. Around 6,000 years ago, some CLV groups migrated west, mixing with local hunter-gatherers to form the Yamnaya culture.
Others moved south into Anatolia, where they interbred with early farmers and gave rise to languages like Hittite, the oldest known Indo-European language that we have written records of.
“We’ve been on the hunt for this for many years,” Reich told the New York Times. “This is the first time we have a genetic picture unifying all Indo-European languages.”
Genetic reconstruction of the ancestry of Pontic-Caspian steppe and West Asian populations points to four key locations. Credit: Nature. (© ZME Science).
The Yamnaya, researchers believe, thanks to their high mobility and herding practices, became the primary vector for spreading Indo-European languages across Europe and Asia.
“They spread from the steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas all the way to Mongolia on one side and as far as Ireland on the other — 6,000 kilometers!” David Anthony, an anthropologist and co-author of the study, told Harvard Gazette.
The discovery of the CLV people as the missing link in the Indo-European story marks a turning point in a 200-year-old quest. Earlier genetic studies had shown that the Yamnaya carried steppe ancestry into Europe and Asia, but the origins of their language remained unclear.
The new research reveals that the CLV people not only contributed to the Yamnaya genome but also to the ancestry of Bronze Age Anatolians. Previously, the absence of steppe ancestry among the Hittites had puzzled researchers. The new study shows that the Hittites likely inherited their language from the CLV people who migrated to Anatolia, rather than from the Yamnaya.
“The Caucasus-Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations,” said Dr. Ron Pinhasi, a researcher at the University of Vienna and co-author of the study. “They are the best candidate for the population that spoke Proto-Indo-European.”
Yamnaya culture at its largest expansion (© ZME Science)
Not everyone is convinced though. Some linguists, like Paul Heggarty of Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, argue that the first Indo-European speakers were early farmers in the Fertile Crescent, not hunter-gatherers in southern Russia.
“Genes don’t tell us anything about language, period,” said Mait Metspalu, a population geneticist at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Still, origin or not, the significance of the Yamnaya culture cannot be denied.
A remarkable people
| Yamnaya People: Characteristics, Culture, Migrations | Early European history and religion |
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The Yamnaya, descendants of the CLV people, revolutionized life on the steppes with their herding practices and use of wheeled wagons. Their superior technology most likely supercharged the spread of their language across vast regions through trade and conquest.
“I don’t think we can even imagine what it was like for other people to see a wagon coming,” said Anthony. “It was moving across the landscape, creaking and groaning, pulling a ton of equipment. People had never seen anything like it before.”
The Yamnaya also left behind a lasting legacy in their burial practices. Both the CLV and Yamnaya cultures buried their dead in large earthen mounds called kurgans, which have provided a wealth of archaeological and genetic data. “Suppose the Yamnaya had cremated their dead,” said Nick Patterson, a co-author of the study. “Chances are, we wouldn’t even know about this crucial culture in human history.”
As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far more complex — and far more fascinating — than anyone imagined.
“There’s all sorts of mixtures and movements from places that these myths never imagined,” said Reich. “And it really teaches us that there’s really no such thing as purity.”
The findings appeared in the journal Nature. This story originally appeared on ZME Science. More
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Code Breaking: Indus script deciphered?
Breaking the Code: Deciphering the enigma of the Indus script with Yajnadevam
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Saturday, January 20, 2024
Kamala for president (comedy)
Guest Host Russell Dobular, Keaton Weiss (Due Dissidence), Kurt Metzger (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
| Talks a lot yet says so little by using NLP. |
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Scientists rediscover lost human groups
Catherine Shuttleworth, Indy 100 via MSN.com, 9/27/23; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
| Members of the Himba community, which is also native to the Namib desert Members of the Himba community, which is also native to the Namib desert (iStock) |
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Scientists rediscover human groups that were thought to have died out decades ago
| OMG, these tribal Africans are so beautiful! |
When a number of languages died out in southern Africa's Namib Desert, anthropologists feared that the populations that spoke them had gone, too. However, experts have now discovered that the genetic identity of these groups may have been maintained, even without their native tongue.
"We were able to locate groups which were once thought to have disappeared more than 50 years ago," Dr. Jorge Rocha of the University of Porto said in a statement. One of these groups is the Kwepe, who used to speak Kwadi.
The disappearance of the language was thought to mark the end of their separation from neighboring populations. Dr. Ann-Maria Fehn of the Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos said:
"Kwadi was a click language that shared a common ancestor with the Khoe languages spoken by foragers and herders across Southern Africa."
The team managed to find the descendants of those who spoke Kwadi and discovered that they had retained their genetic distinctiveness that traces back to a time before Bantu-speaking farmers moved into the area. More: Scientists rediscover human groups that were thought to have died out decades ago
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
New form of English discovered in USA
Phillip M. Carter (Scientific American, 6/14/23); Crystal Quintero (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
| Revolution in Cuba could've spared El Norte from this blended outcome. |
| Yo soy Mickey Mouse Club's Christina Aguilera (Krissy Eagle), white Latina, lover of makeup. |
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| Latinx power, ese. |
“We got down from the car and went inside.”
“I made the line to pay for groceries.”
“He made a party to celebrate his son’s birthday.”
These phrases might sound off to the ears of most English-speaking Americans. In Miami, however, they’ve become part of the local parlance.
According to recently published research (by the author of this article), these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new English dialect taking shape in South Florida.
This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly [too literally] from Spanish.
When French collided with English
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Whether English speakers live in Miami or elsewhere, chances are we don’t know where the words we know and use come from.
We’re probably aware that a limited number of words – usually foods, such as “sriracha” or “croissant” – are borrowed from other languages. But borrowed words are far more pervasive than we might think.
They’re all over our English vocabulary: “pajamas” from Hindi (India), “gazelle” from Arabic via French, and “tsunami” from Japanese.
Borrowed words usually come from the minds and mouths of bilingual speakers who end up moving between different cultures and places [called "code-switching"].
This can happen when certain events like war, colonialism, political exile, immigration, or climate change put speakers of different languages into contact with one another.
When the contact takes place over an extended period of time – decades, generations or longer – the structures of the languages in question may begin to influence one another, and the speakers can begin to share each other’s vocabulary.
[Blacks (Moors) ruled England for 800 years then the French for 200 years]
| "Get down from the car" or "get out of the car"? (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) |
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Soon thereafter, a French-speaking ruling class replaced the English-speaking aristocracy, and for roughly 200 years, the elites of England, including the kings, did their business in French.
English never really caught on with the aristocracy, but since servants and the middle classes needed to communicate with aristocrats – and with people of different classes intermarrying – French words trickled down the class hierarchy and into the language.
Words that today seem basic, even fundamental, to English vocabulary were, just 800 years ago, borrowed from French: prince, government, administer, liberty, court, prayer, judge, justice, literature, music, and poetry to name just a few.
Spanish meets English in Miami
| "Latinx" means Latino/Latina. |
Fast forward to today, where a similar form of language contact involving Spanish and English has been going on in Miami since the end of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
In the years following the revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cubans left the island nation for South Florida, setting the stage for what would become one of the most important linguistic convergences in all of the Americas.
Today, the vast majority of the population is bilingual. In 2010, more than 65% of the population of Miami-Dade County identified as Hispanic or Latinx (Latina/Latino), and in the large municipalities of Doral and Hialeah, the figure is 80% and 95%, respectively.
Of course, identifying as Latinx is not synonymous with speaking Spanish, and language loss has occurred among second- and third-generation Cuban Americans. But the point is that there is a lot of Spanish, and a lot of English, being spoken in Miami.
Saturday, November 5, 2022
The Wisdom Codes: Ancient Words (video)
New discoveries in biology and the neurosciences are revealing how the structure of language -- the words we think and speak -- can actually change the way the neurons in our brains and hearts connect.
But thousands of years ago, our [Buddhist] ancestors understood this connection intuitively. They created specific word-patterns to provide comfort, healing, strength, and inner power in difficult times.
| Researcher Gregg Braden |
Now teacher and thought leader Gregg Braden cracks the code and puts these powerful words in our hands.
Perfect as a pocket guide, a reference for spiritual study, or a gift to someone we love, this elegant, compact book contains Wisdom Codes that cut to the core of life's greatest tests, most challenging demands, and hardest lessons.
Find chapters devoted to healing from loss and grief, facing unspoken fears, finding certainty in the face of uncertain choices, and finding forgiveness (khanti), as well as ancient parables that offer a "fast track" to unraveling life's deepest mysteries.
Each Wisdom Code -- distilled from a quote, a scripture passage, or a parable -- is accompanied by a brief discussion of what the code means, why it's important, and how to apply it: Wisdom Codes
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Standup comedy w/ Finland's ISMO (video)
Leikola Ismo: The English language is so confusing!
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Friday, December 22, 2017
"The Key": India, Ireland, Mesoamerica...
; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly
The Key: A Startling Enquiry into the Riddle of Man's Past
| Avalokitesvara becomes Goddess Kwan Yin |
In tracing the origins of Irish place-names, author John Philip Cohane stumbled on material
that led to a theory of man's prehistory more daring than that proposed
in Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki.
They Key is the exciting record of the search that enabled him to follow the ancient migrations of a Semitic people to every corner of the earth.
Cohane's The Key is one of the most fascinating books this reviewer has read in a long while.
By using six key words, which appear in place names from Europe to the South Pacific, the author sets out to prove that the Semitic people traveled all over the face of the globe long before Columbus "discovered" the New World....
The idea seems fantastic, but coupled with the obvious similarities in place names in these and other widely scattered parts of the world, it certainly provides food for thought....
They Key is the exciting record of the search that enabled him to follow the ancient migrations of a Semitic people to every corner of the earth.
Cohane's The Key is one of the most fascinating books this reviewer has read in a long while.
By using six key words, which appear in place names from Europe to the South Pacific, the author sets out to prove that the Semitic people traveled all over the face of the globe long before Columbus "discovered" the New World....
The idea seems fantastic, but coupled with the obvious similarities in place names in these and other widely scattered parts of the world, it certainly provides food for thought....
| Avalokitesvara deva |
Mr. Cohane's work,
although scholarly in content, is thoroughly entertaining and of
interest to even the most casual reader."
-Cincinnati Post
Historians and linguists will
be shocked at first by The Key. But a few will see that Mr. Cohane is
pointing to something real lying beyond the limits of their former
vision and awaiting their efforts to bring it into better focus and
perspective.
-Dr. Frederick L. Santee, Kenyon College
A graduate of Yale University, Cohane had a
successful career in advertising in New York until moving to Ireland to
devote his time to writing and working on archeological digs with the
Irish government. More
Friday, February 3, 2017
This is why we can't communicate! (video)
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That's not what I meant!
"We are, all of us, foreigners to each other: editor and writer, man and woman, Californian and New Yorker, friend and friend. Deborah Tannen shows us how different we are, and how to speak the same language."
- Jack Rosenthal, Pultizer Prize winner and editor
Tannen, who revolutionized our thinking about male-female relationships in her bestseller You Just Don't Understand, shows that conversational confusion between the sexes is only part of the picture.
| Women and Men in Conversation (Dr. Tannen) |
Entertaining and informative, this is an essential complement to psychological theories of human behavior. No one who has read Tannen's fascinating look at women and men will want to miss a word of this book! More
"Tannen combines a novelist’s ear for the way people speak with a rare power of original analysis....Fascinating.”
In That’s Not What I Meant!, Deborah Tannen -- renowned communication expert and author of the New York Times bestsellers You’re Wearing THAT? and You Just Don’t Understand -- explores how conversational styles can make or break interpersonal
relationships at home, at work, and at play.
Fans of her books and the healthily curious reader interested in popular psychology, feminism, linguistics, or the social sciences will be fascinated by Tannen’s remarkable insights into unintentional conversational confusion.
That’s Not What I Meant! is an essential guide to recognizing and adjusting what we say and how we are saying it in order to strengthen or save a relationship. More
You Just Don't Understand
This is the "Rosetta Stone" that at last deciphers the miscommunications between
the sexes.
Anyone who wants to understand what that "stranger" on the opposite side of the bed is actually thinking and saying certainly should consult this informative, eye-opening, witty, and sophisticated book.
It is essential reading to anyone in a relationship, or wants to be in a relationship, or for that matter anyone who isn't living in a cave. It is a book that makes sense out of it all. Now I understand my spouse! More
| Oh, Wise One, please tell me the meaning of what my wife is trying to say! (ADC) |
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- Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and The Mind’s Eye
Fans of her books and the healthily curious reader interested in popular psychology, feminism, linguistics, or the social sciences will be fascinated by Tannen’s remarkable insights into unintentional conversational confusion.
That’s Not What I Meant! is an essential guide to recognizing and adjusting what we say and how we are saying it in order to strengthen or save a relationship. More
You Just Don't Understand
Anyone who wants to understand what that "stranger" on the opposite side of the bed is actually thinking and saying certainly should consult this informative, eye-opening, witty, and sophisticated book.
It is essential reading to anyone in a relationship, or wants to be in a relationship, or for that matter anyone who isn't living in a cave. It is a book that makes sense out of it all. Now I understand my spouse! More
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