ON THE HISTORY OF A LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE FAMILIES
THE FAMILY TREE OF LANGUAGES IS WRONG - IT HAS NEVER SPROUTED The third chapter of my book "Sounds from the Garden of Eden" discusses the theme of language relations. The common, widely accepted theory tells us that almost every language is a part of a family of languages. Like, for instance, English belongs to the Germanic family, which by itself is a part of the Indo-European family. Every student of linguistics or anything that has to do with languages studies this theory as if it were an absolute truth. The theory of language family was invented two hundred years ago to be applied to the language families then known, the Indo European and Semitic. later all languages of the world were assembled in families, and also in macro families, like the Afro Asiatic which connects 6 different families of languages, 5 from Africa, and the Semitic. The theory principle is very simple. In the deep far past there was a language spoken by a quite small group of people. This langua...