User:Mrg3105/sandbox for original research

Something I had wanted to do for a long time is to start a dictionary of Greek words derived from Hebrew. Even during university time I noticed a similarity between many commonly used Greek-derived English words in their phonetic structure and semantic application.

Given the observations of Fernand Braudel, and Immanuel Wallerstein who "describes our world system as characterized by mechanisms, which bring about a redistribution of resources from the periphery to the core", I made the observation that language too is a resource, and transmission of information directly facilitates and is a necessity for all other resource redistribution, hence the Information Age seen by many today as a pinnacle of socio-economic development by Humanity.

The above observation was no less true in the Ancient World then it is today, and for at least six and a half centuries Greece, or the collection of Hellenic societies in the Eastern Mediterranean, during its "Dark Ages" was the periphery of a socially, culturally and economically vibrant Hebrew Confederation, and later Kingdom of Israel, which possessed just this means of transmitting information through writing, accurately, over distance and time, to accompany resources.

The first part of the originality of this research is the proposition that Linear B speakers were not Greek, but native inhabitants of the Peloponesus (Greek: Πελοπόνησος Pelopónnisos) who were largely exterminated by the invading Hellenes.

The first problem with this is the finding of their written record to be a form of archaic Greek. I will deal with this later.

The second problem with this is the lack of written record as proof to the contrary. This too has an explanation.

The second part of the originality of this research is to show that transmission in vocabulary borrowing from Israel to the Greek speakers was extensive and achieved proportions compatible to that of Japan and China.

This brings me to Martin Bernal (though not through his early work) and not the Black Athena controversy either. It is in fact about his hypothesis of language transmission, despite criticisms it received. Also Barry B. Powell may be of use to explain the process, although their conclusions can not be more divergent.

The simple truth is that societies which were better at communication usually survived and prospered and those that did not...did not prosper or survive. Soviet Union is the best and most recent example of this, where despite universal education the restrictive policy on communication led to eventual collapse of the state.

The third problem with this is the deeply held conviction that Greece was the cradle of Western civilisation. This is not particularly critically examined in academia, but the logic o this quickly breaks down when one assumes that such a "cradle" would be a consistent produced of original and creative thinking. The Greeks had not for most of their history exhibited this proclivity. What is more, I will allege that much of the early "discoveries" were plagiarisms from the core (where that core was, and why, will be dealt with later).

The fourth problem with this proposition is that there is a wide-ranging and entrenched "belief" in the Indo-European Theory that supports problem three. Devised in the 19th century France with express intent of erasing the commonly held Biblical belief in Hebrew being the origin of languages, and motivated more by the prevailing "scientific thinking" culture in the academia, and anti-Semitism in France, the IET has been expanded into "science fiction" through the proto- language forensics.

What it fails to acknowledge however, and this was unknown when William Jones (philologist) made his observations taken up later by Franz Bopp, is that the Greeks were migrants, and had only arrived in Europe c.1,400 BCE. This became known only after the discovery of Radiocarbon dating.

Even if Greek did bear similarities with Sanskrit, Trade routes predate Greek arrival in the Balkans (not the Peloponesus) some century (current estimate) prior, and that sailing was known to, and practised by the ancient Israelites well before it became available to the Greeks. In any case, the logistics of linking the migrations of the Greeks (c.1,300-1,400 BCE) from the East, the Latins (c.800 BCE) by sea from Levant, the Celts (c.400 BCE?) from the West, and the rest from c.200 CE out of the East severely preclude substantial transmission of languages until the 3-4 centuries CE at the earliest. How they can occupy a place on the same linguistic "tree" is never contemplated.