Abstract
In this paper, we bring together the concepts put forth in our previous papers and throw new light on how the Indo-Europeanization of the world may have happened from the conventional Central Asian homeland and explain the same using maps and diagrams. We also propose the ‘Ten modes of linguistic transformations associated with Human migrations.’ With this, the significance of the proposed term ‘Base Indo-European’ in lieu of the old term ‘Proto Indo-European’ will become abundantly clear to most readers. The approaches presented in this paper are somewhat superior to existing approaches, and as such are expected to replace them in the longer run. Detailed maps and notes demonstrating and explaining how linguistic transformations might have taken place in South Asia are available in this paper as understood from our previous research papers, and scholars from other parts of the world are invited to develop similar paradigms with regard to their home countries as far as the available data or evidence will allow them. This will help piece together a gigantic jig-saw puzzle, and lead to a revolution of sorts in the field, leading to a ripple-effect that will strongly impact several other related fields of study as well. We also re-emphasize our epigrammatic catch-phrases ‘The Globalization of Science’ and ‘Scientific Progress at the Speed of Light’, and attempt to show how the former will inexorably lead to the latter. This is done in a respectable level of detail, as zany and theoretical concepts gain respectability only if corroborated with real-world data from across the world. The end-result will be a transformation and a revolution in human knowledge, with inevitable cascading changes in cultural and social paradigms and relationships across nationalities and cultures, and rich rewards for scholars and students of Indo-European studies across the world.
Highlights
In this paper, we bring together the concepts put forth in our previous papers and throw new light on how the Indo-Europeanization of the world may have happened from the conventional Central Asian homeland and explain the same using maps and diagrams
We propose the ‘Ten modes of linguistic transformations associated with Human migrations.’
The Indo-European question has been the mother of all historical puzzles ever since Sir William Jones, a British judge in India, well-acquainted with Indian languages and literature, and one of co-founders of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, delivered a lecture in Calcutta on the third anniversary celebrations of the founding of the afore-said society held on the second of February, 1786, in which he put forth his theory that the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in India were related to those in Europe and had a common ancestor, known as Proto Indo-European
Summary
The Indo-European question has been the mother of all historical puzzles ever since Sir William Jones, a British judge in India, well-acquainted with Indian languages and literature, and one of co-founders of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, delivered a lecture in Calcutta on the third anniversary celebrations of the founding of the afore-said society held on the second of February, 1786, in which he put forth his theory that the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in India were related to those in Europe and had a common ancestor, known as Proto Indo-European. Some early missionaries such as Filippo Sassetti had noted the similarities between European and Indian languages much earlier, as had James Burnett aka Lord Monboddo in the Eighteenth century before Jones, this speech effectively laid the foundation for Indo-European studies as it was widely quoted in other publications, and had a major impact at that time Another key reason for the widespread interest in the Indo-European problem was the fact that Indo-European languages were widely spoken in Europe, North America, South America, Australia and other influential regions of the world. The latter came to be known as Grimm’s Law of transformational grammar
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