10-07-2024, 12:45 PM
(10-07-2024, 01:07 AM)tavie wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[Macro-language families, e.g. like Nostratic or Eurasiatic, are fun to imagine but they have never been proven and are likely unable to be proved. This is why they are fringe theories. Any original common ancestor language would date back so long ago that we cannot find meaningful and systemic commonalities in descendant languages that are distinguishable from random coincidence. The languages would have changed far too much in that time. Moreover, the Etruscan written corpus is limited and dates millennia after any hypothetical split, and we don't see any Turkic writings recognized until at least a millennia after that, and they are limited too.
On the genetic studies (which in this case do not help us with identifying the language family), there have been far more recent ones, including a couple that found little difference between Etruscans and their Latin contemporaries. How odd this wasn't mentioned. As a side note, in the context of Etruscan origin, it's pretty important not to read "Anatolian" as synonymous with "Turkic", given that this usually refers to Anatolia about two millennia before Turkic peoples arrived there.]
Dear Tavie,
After reading what you wrote, I can say that I concluded that you may not have read what was written in the mentioned books and articles. First of all, the new genetic studies conducted after the mentioned genetic study did not produce any results that could discredit or cancel the previous findings and results. Secondly, in the aforementioned genetic studies, the words Anatolian and Turk were both used clearly, without mixing them. We perceive Anatolia as a geographical region and the word Turk as the name of a certain community. In addition, Etruscan writings are diverse enough to make transcription reading and establishing relationships with today's languages. Linguists also study these writings and links are shown. To say that there may be a connection between two languages compared (at least at the level of lexical exchange), it is checked whether the words in these languages overlap phonetically and semantically. In addition, the organizational/fundamental structure of the compared languages is also examined. Here, not only are there many overlapping words between the two languages that you do not see any connection between, but also the structure of these languages is an agglutinative language. Moreover, the authors of the books and articles I mentioned are professors who are experts on the subject, and science has progressed to the extent that different opinions are taken into account.