Proto/quotes/poem/notes/2/27/2024

The Canada Goose Chin Strap

Proto

The proto-human language (also proto-sapiens, proto-world) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages.[1]

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Archaeolinguistics includes several distinct topics of study:
– The study of the evolution of language and symbolic behavior through the integration of Paleolithic archaeology (lithics, art, notations, etc.) and studies in cognitive linguistics. This has virtually nothing to do with ‘paleolinguistics’ as an extended form of historical linguistics, but it requires a good foundational knowledge of both archaeology and linguistics, and also of hominin evolution.
– The study of prehistory through the comparative use of historical linguistics and archaeology, e.g., to reconstruct proto-language homelands, prehistoric migrations, subsistence patterns, the diffusion of technology, and the like. Where two independent sources of information converge on the same answer, it is more likely to be correct than when one line of evidence alone is used. This is ‘paleolinguistics plus’: the archaeological record is (dis)confirmatory and serves as a check on wild speculation.
– Archaeological decipherment: the decipherment of ancient texts recovered in archaeological contexts. This relies on quantitative analysis of texts and their signs, as well as more interpretive aspects of decipherment that rely on knowledge of social contexts that can mainly be known archaeologically. Maya script decipherment is a classic example of this ongoing process; without the archaeological record, our understanding of the hieroglyphic texts would be substantially hindered.

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The study of the distant human past using archaeological and linguistic evidence together to reconstruct aspects of past cultures.

Related terms

linguistics

archaeolinguistic

Translations

show ▼±study of the distant human past using archaeological and linguistic evidence together

See also

paleolinguistics

wikitionary

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy.

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Darwin reiterated Schleicher's proposition in his 1871 book The Descent of Man, claiming that languages are comparable to species, and that language change occurs through natural selection as words 'struggle for life'. Darwin believed that languages had evolved from animal mating calls.

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Say

Oh, were we as patient as you,
Black Phoebe,
To perch on a fallen Cedar branch
Aside the Merced
And
Peep. Peep. Peep.
All a day,
Our one sweet nothing to say!?

DolphinWords

Notes: language archaeology is a mess...brb...archaeolinguistics...I mean it's taxonomy...brb...I mean, a language isn't glued to the genetic code, or some such, and hence, it doesn't evolve, I mean, you don't have language species, or breeds...brb...even though of course I find Darwin went thataway...but I've wondered my self what our mating song was...to say nothing of our dance...

Aloha,

:)

DavidDavid