According to BBC News Magazine Monitor, Doctor Sebastian Brock; a Academic Form Oxford; say that both The Pope and Israeli Leader is right because, In that time, Aramaic is a language of everyday life in that time and Hebrew is a language of scholars and texts. He also added that Jesus may known some Latin and Greek but He thinks that he cannot write in any language.
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My interest in History led me to read about language, especially the history and families of languages, because Studying history of the language help us understand history of ethnic groups that spoke that language (This rule don't apply on ethic group that renounce their own tongue and get new such as the Normans, the French and the Algerians ). Such as Thai, Lao and Shan belong to Tai Language Family so we can infer that Thai, Lao and Shan people were a same group of people in some point of history. Other example is English which can tell us history of England. English has a Germanic root, indicate by many similar common words with Modern German such as "I" in English is " Ich" in German or "You" in English is "Du" in German. This similarities is a evidence of a Germanic Anglo-Saxon's arrival in Britain a thousand year ago. They brought their langauge with them. In 1066, the Normans took over and rule Britannia. Normans are Vikings who speak french, so a lot of French vocabulary come into English such as "Pork" which Anglo-Saxon called it "Swine". Without Normans English would sound more like Dutch or German.
As I says above all Language change when the time pass. Sounds may shift, that is why "Pather" in Latin became "Father" n English or "Heuan" in Isan and Laos became "Reauan" in Thai. Some word maybe borrowed such as "Sathan Tee" in Thai which mean "Place" or "Location" came form "Stan" in Sanskrit which share same root with "Stand" in English. Why? Because English and Sanskrit are in the same family of Indo-European (I.E) which descant form a same Language which called Proto-Indo European.
I "know about" several languages but I "know" only two of them , English and Thai, which has many points to improve. Do you know some of any ancient tongue? Please feel free and share.
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I agree with you that studying history of the language help us understand history. In addition, I found it easy to study 2 languages that closely related, and compare them to each other, because it's easier to remember when you can compare 2 things. I'm studying German by myself now, and I find it easier to remember when you start to compare it with English. Maybe it's just me, or because it is just basic grammar and words, not advanced.
ReplyDeleteMek's post today fits nicely with the essay introduction we will be looking at tomorrow, when I will also give you the full essay and a bit more.
ReplyDeleteTeacher peter, I had heard you studied Old Chinese. Is it radically different form Modern Mandarin? I heard that it has more consonant than Modern Chinese and the missing consonant gives rise to more tone in modern Chinese.
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