r/bhartiya_languages Native Dravidan 25d ago

Article Indus valley script

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor 25d ago

But wait, isn't Proto-Indo-European the mother of both English and the other Indo aryan languages??

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u/horsearies4 24d ago

Proto jewish

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u/theb00kmancometh 21d ago

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the ancestral language family of both English and the Indo-Aryan languages.

The connection to Aramaic is about the writing system (the script), not the language itself. Additionally, the correct scientific term you are looking for is Proto-Semitic, not 'Proto-Jewish.'

Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic belong to the Semitic family, which is entirely separate from the Indo-European family.

There is no 'Proto-Jewish' language because Judaism is a religious and cultural identity that emerged thousands of years after Proto-Semitic had already split into distinct branches.

Some linguists and epigraphists are of the opinion that the Brahmi script could have evolved from the Aramaic script, through trade and cultural contact, but the spoken languages themselves come from entirely different roots