Something Unknown about the Wellknown (original) (raw)

The article is devoted to the problem of the origin of language that one of those questions, which are still unresolved. It is natural, that this problem concerns such sophisticated issue as the origin of human being itself. Unfortunately, for a long time this problem had been based on certain methodological inconsistencies, that were rooted in F. Engels’s thought about transformation of a monkey into a human being. However, a corresponding analysis of the accumulated material indicates that the materialistic position is powerless in answering many questions posed here. There are two reasons for this. First, the vast majority of research in the study of ethnogenesis was usually based on imperial ambitions. Since the outbreak of imperialist wars and colonialism, any metropolis, with the aim of capturing new lands, under various pretexts had sought to give history an ideological direction, while mostly distorting the history of the indigenous inhabitants who faced their ag-gres¬si¬ve ambitions. The Bible Table and the idea of the God-chosenness of the Jews, which gave impetus to the emergence of such movements as racial theory and anti-Semitism, as well as Altai theory, caused considerable confusion on this issue. Secondly, without answering the question - who a human being is? - it is impossible to talk about the problem of the origin of the language, and here is a vulnerability of the materialistic approach to this problem. Working on the article, the author used the appropriate analogies from the written sources and comparative examples from va¬ri¬ous languages. The article is intended for a narrow circle of readers endowed with a wide eru¬dition.