SUMMARY OF THE VOLUME Kartvelian Linguoculturology of the Past or A New Genetic Classification of Languages (original) (raw)

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology (Part II)

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, 2011

The translation of Part II of my monograph titled Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology (Tbilisi 2011) offers readers a unique opportunity to take a linguistic and culturological tour across millennia where their guide is the Phoenician Āleph and its super-informational group (SIG). The SIG is a completely novel phenomenon whose formation occurs only when the Kartvelian languages and culture are involved in prehistoric studies. The SIG is targeted NOT at familiar phono-semantic etymons known from historical linguistics, but at huge culturological information of our past: linguistic, religious, paleographic, historical, geographical, ethnological, archaeological, and symbolic, pointing to the genetic source of the analyzed word. The Phoenician ‘Āleph and its six Kartvelian etymons (qalibi ‘mold, x̣ai/xari ‘bull’, xareba ‘give joyful tidings’, xalepo ‘vicious’, ‘deadly’, xar ‘(you) are”, and xarxar ‘silly laughter’) are a good example to demonstrate how Kartvelian archetypes enable analyzed words to develop multiple visible and invisible ties not only with their source, but also within their native languages and culture, and far beyond.

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, Part I

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, 2011

This is the translation of Part I of my monograph titled "Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology", which was published in Georgian in 2011. This section is a scholarly “adventure” of the manuscript that was found in the Bamiyan caves (Afghanistan) and taken to the British Museum for assessment and possible purchase. The manuscript had tiny stone seals engraved carefully and attached to several pages of the manuscript whose upper registers featured two letter-signs of the Kartuli Asomtavruli alphabet – Ghani and Doni. A detailed linguoculturological and paleographic analyses of the Bamiyan and Kartuli Asomtavruli letters made it necessary to include a number of scholarly fields into the study. These included Assyriology, Egyptology, historical linguistics, paleography, history, archaeology, ethnology, and Kartvelology. As a result, the book and Part I in particular, offers readers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with a new look at old problems, make use of novel ways of solving various issues, and build a logical, harmonious and continuous picture of our past outlining, at the same time, its perspectives for future studies.

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology (Part IV)

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology, 2011

Part IV completes the English translation of my 2011a monograph titled "Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology". This part is devoted to the etymological examination of Egyptian divine and royal names as well as fundamental religious concepts and their formulas. These, coupled with a number of divine names that grant the Kartvelian people the status of God are a vivid demonstration of the Kartvelian source of this ancient world.

A structural comparison of Etruscan with the Kartvelian languages

Etruscan, the language of the people that dominated central and northern Italy from prehistoric time until the rise of Rome, has hitherto not been entirely deciphered. The riddle posed by the nature of the tongue of the early masters of Rome remains a permanent irritant; the more so since the solution to this enigma would help shed a new light on the early history of Mediterranean civilisation. The present approach focuses on a structural comparison of Etruscan with the South-Caucasian (Kartvelian) language family. We find a complete concordance with Kartvelian of the whole system of the attested Etruscan casual terminations, but also an identity of their usage, which is so unusual and complex as to exclude any explanation by coincidence. We also find a compelling number of core cognates and the possibility of applying a typological cross-verification: by using grammatical patterns from one of the two compared systems one is able to predict similar patterns in the other.

Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology (in Georgian)

Mcignobari, 2011

"Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology" offers readers a unique opportunity to get acquainted with a new look at old problems, make use of novel ways of solving various issues, and building a logical, harmonious, and continuous picture of our past outlining, at the same time, its perspectives for future studies. "Kartvelian-Sumerian-Egyptian Linguoculturology" is a scholarly “adventure” of the manuscript that was found in the Bamiyan caves (Afghanistan) and taken to the British Museum for assessment and possible purchase. The manuscript had tiny stone seals engraved carefully and attached to several pages of the manuscript whose upper registers featured two letter-signs of the Kartuli Asomtavruli alphabet – Ghani and Doni. A detailed paleographic analysis of the Bamiyan and Kartuli Asomtavruli letters made it necessary to include a number of scholarly fields into the study. These included Assyriology, Egyptology, historical linguistics, paleography, history, archaeology, ethnology, and Kartvelology. A comprehensive scrutiny of various graphic and semantic issues of the Bamyian and Asomtavruli letter-signs through the mentioned fields uncovered concealed sacred and codified relations of the Kartuli Asomtavruli alphabet with the Phoenician and Greek alphabets, with Sumerian and Egyptian royal and divine insignia, various symbols, cuneiform letters, hieroglyphs, and many more. A complex methodology combining traditional linguistic and culturological methods with the means and techniques of the ancient esoteric science of the Kabbalah deciphered and uncovered the Kartvelian origin of numerous language items related to the discussed problems. The work is in Georgian and has a long summary in English at the end.

Kartvelian Historical morphology

2023

An overview of the morphology of the Kartvelian languages from a historical perspective (revised version of 18 April 2023, with new addition to section on qualitative ablaut)

Kartvelian and Lexical Contact in the Ancient Caucasus

Beyond recorded history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics

This paper will survey what kinds of lexical contact affected the Kartvelian languages in the ancient Caucasus: what kinds of lexical items were borrowed, and when, and what light such patterns shed on phonological and morphological developments within Kartvelian. It also provides evidence for: • a number of new phonemes in that protolanguage, including palatalized *rj, a velarized/labialized series of sibilants, and at least one pharyngeal fricative • the absolute dating of the loss of these earlier segments • 'm-mobile', a kind of rebracketing process affecting nasal stops word-initially By calibrating dates of attestation with known external facts of contact languages, I provide evidence for the absolute dating of important phonological sound-shifts and morphological reanalysis in the Kartvelian languages.

Kartvelian origin: Language of Kura-Araxes culture

Kartvelian origin: Kura-Araxes language, 2023

Аnnotation: The article is devoted to the language of the Kuro-Araxes archaeological culture that existed in 4000-2000 BC. The Kuro-Araxes culture originated in the Middle East and spread to the Caucasus. This was unwritten and left no linguistic evidence. But the descendants of this culture and their languages are known to modern peoples. The languages of their neighbors are also well known. The Kuro-Arak laid the foundation in the ethnogenesis of the Kartvelians. Having shifted the Maikop culture to the north, it marked the beginning of the division of the Caucasus into northern and southern. This is clearly visible in languages. Starting from phonetics and ending with vocabulary. Also, this division is well traced in culture. In addition, the anthropological appearance of the inhabitants of the North and South Caucasus differs. At the same time, we cannot forget about the mutual influence of parts of the Caucasus on each other. It is the result of more than six thousand years of living together. Which begins precisely with the arrival of the Kuro-Arak culture in the Caucasus. This culture itself originated in the Middle East. Experienced the influence of ancient civilizations. Just as the genetics of the Caucasian peoples originates in the Middle East, the languages of the Caucasus also originate in this part of the world. Therefore, reconstructing the language of the Kuro-Arak culture, we reconstruct the ancient ethnolinguistic map of the East. This article reconstructs the language of the Kuro-Araxes culture based on a comparison of the Proto-kartveliаn language with the languages of its neighbors. The article reveals the origin of the peoples of the Caucasus, establishes their kinship ties.

From the origin of language to the diversification of languages

Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures, 2009

Can agent-based language evolution contribute to archeology? Luc Steels Index The contributions presented in this volume are intended to depict a panorama of the topics explored by various research teams in the framework of the OMLL programme, to summarize new relevant data and emerging theories, to provide an updated view of this interdisciplinary venture, and, when possible, to provide directions for future research. In their variety, the collected papers cover the original call for proposals and reflect the multiplicity of interests and research strategy used to tackle this complex issue. It is obvious that the papers included in this volume do not cover all aspects of research in the vast scientific area of the EUROCORES Programme "The Origin of  Jean-Marie Hombert and Francesco d'Errico engraved or painted representations, personal ornaments, burial practices, musical traditions, anatomy and encephalization. The authors' argument contradicts the hypothesis of a symbolic revolution coinciding with the arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe some 40,000 years ago and highlights inconsistencies in the anatomically-culturally modern equation and the potential contribution of anatomically "pre-modern" human populations to the emergence of these abilities. The so-called "Neolithic revolution" has had a major impact on population growth and human migrations. It involved domestication of plants and animals. In their article Tresset, Bollongino, Edwards, Hughes and Vigne examine the early diffusion of bovids in Europe as a trace of human migrations, contacts and exchanges. By investigating the localisation of wild ancestors and process of dissemination of different species they show that different processes took place. Sheep and goats had no wild ancestors in Europe, consequently domesticated sheep and goats can be considered as good tracers for the expansion of farming advance or at least of Neolithic influence. Cattle and pigs on the other hand had potential ancestors in Europe which means that independent local domestication or hybridization with animals imported from the Near East was possible. Genetic data indicate that domesticated sheep, goats and cattle were introduced in Europe with no interaction with local populations for goats and sheep or very little in the case of bovines. For pigs, the process was very different; a first introduction from the Near East was followed by a local domestication of the wild boar leading to the disappearance of the original Eastern lineages. Language and genes Genetic data from modern populations have been used to provide dates for the emergence of anatomically modern humans and to locate their continent of origin. They have also been used to infer information concerning more recent population movements. On the basis of linguistic data collected from modern languages it is possible to reconstruct earlier groupings of currently spoken languages into language families and thus infer population movements associated with these language groupings. In this volume, four geographical/linguistic areas are investigated: West-Central Africa, Northern Africa, Central Asia and the Himalayas. These studies illustrate the complexity of the relationship between genes and languages and clearly show that a better understanding of such historical scenarios will only be possible with the joint contribution of linguistic and genetic research. Van der Veen, Quintana-Murci and Comas focus on West-Central Africa and address issues related to the so-called "Bantu expansion" and more specifically to 