Language: It’s not all Greek to me

Anish — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:19:33 +0000

I have always wondered about the history of languages. Every once in a while, I would have an epiphany where I would notice similarites between certain words in different languages. These similarities weren’t only restricted to the Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi, but the similarities were also found within Dravidian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam as well as in languages that were spoken on the other side of the world, such as languages that descended from Greek and Latin.

According to a website I found about the similarities in our languages, there were many similarities in word father in English, which is vater in German, pater in Latin and in Greek, pitar in Sanskrit, padre in Spanish and pere in French — on a slightly related note, this concept could also have played a part in naming Luke Skywalker’s father, Darth Vader.

What the website as well as other sources stated was that these common sounding words were no mere coincidence and actually are proof to the theory that there existed a language that was an ancestor to the root languages of Latin, Greek and Sanskrit called the Proto-Indo-European langauge (PIE).

I found this to be a very intriguing topic, since the existence of a universal language proves that all of us truly originated from one source, which goes alongside our belief that we are all one.

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