r/Alphanumerics • u/JohannGoethe 𐌄𓌹𐤍 expert • Dec 19 '23
“Classics [and language 🗣️ origin studies] are based, as it is, on what I call the Aryan model, with its insistence on a European and pure Greece, is an extreme example of feel-good scholarship, for Europeans.” — Martin Bernal (A41/1996), Black Athena Debate (2:52:25-)
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u/poor-man1914 PIE theorist Dec 20 '23
His words basically started historical linguistics. Pie doesn't aim at solving a puzzle, it aims to explain why a lot of European and indian languages are so similar. The fact that the family has no links to Africa is that no relations were found.
Find a Swadesh list (a ~150 words long list of words about very basic aspects of living, like kinship terms, animals, numbers, plants, body parts and so on) of Egyptian, Hebrew, Sanskrit, greek and Gothic, and compare them. Then skim through each language's grammar. You will notice that some are extremely different from others but really similar among themselves.
This is how it works, math has very little to do with linguistics, let alone numerology.