The Armenian Highlands, not Anatolia – the homeland of Indo-European languages

The term – Anatolia is not geographically definitive. However, during the total falsifications of the history of Armenia, and also the replacement of geographical names – the term “Anatolia” condescendingly suggested instead of the term Ancient Turkey found widespread use among historians and archaeologists.

This unclear term is refuted by geneticists who, as a result of their analyses, are able to accurately indicate the affiliation of certain artifacts to specific ethnic groups.

In the article published below, dated August 23, 2012, on the RIA Novosti resource, this term “Anatolia”, which refers to nothing definitive, is used, which refers to the ancient Armenian Highlands, inhabited by the Armenian ethnic group from time immemorial.

Why then do world specialists still fear the correct term “Armenian Highlands” instead of the false term Anatolia? One of the reasons is probably that all these specialists, when using the correct term, will have to part with all their academic degrees, regalia, and frills.

The article below is published without editing, so read the term Anatolia as the Armenian Highlands. Comment by Artatsolum

Armenian Highlands – The Homeland of Indo-European Languages

An international team of linguists convincingly demonstrated that Anatolia is the ancestral home of all existing Indo-European languages, including Russian, by analyzing similarities in some words in modern languages from the perspective of the theory of biological evolution, as stated in an article published in the journal Science.

An international team of scientists using virology methods demonstrated that Anatolia is the ancestral home of all existing Indo-European languages, including Russian, by analyzing similarities in some words in modern languages from the perspective of the theory of biological evolution, as stated in an article published in the journal Science.

“I think we have provided the most compelling set of evidence indicating the birthplace of the Indo-European language family. In addition, we were also able to show that languages can be used to track the history of peoples both in space and in time,” explained the team leader, Quentin Atkinson, from the University of Auckland (New Zealand).

Atkinson and his colleagues tested the validity of the two most commonly accepted hypotheses of the origin of the Indo-European language family – the “Anatolian” and the “Caspian”. According to the first, the common ancestor of Indo-European languages originated in the territory of modern Turkey, in Anatolia, while the second locates the homeland of this language family in the Caspian steppes. Both hypotheses are supported by many arguments, but neither has received universal acceptance.

The authors of the article chose a new approach – they represented languages from the Indo-European family as living organisms, evolved from a single ancestor through biological evolution. The so-called cognates – root words having a common origin and similar sound in several independent languages, act as “genes”.

Commenting on Atkinson’s team results, Russian linguist Alexey Kasyan from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the very use of virological “tools” in linguistic research needs to be justified.

“They claim that virology methods can be used to analyze languages, but this requires separate justification. In particular, a virus particle can coexist in the organism with other viruses, whereas one tribe usually carries one language. Moreover, a virus is easily transmitted upon contact, but transitions from one’s language to the language of neighbors happened rarely,” Kasyan said.

In their work, the linguists analyzed cognates collected by other scientists in the analysis of 103 “dead” and currently existing Indo-European languages and constructed an “evolutionary tree” of the Indo-European family.

For this, the authors of the article counted the number of identical and different cognates in different languages, representing similar words as “genes” that languages could acquire or lose during their evolution. Differing cognates represented “mutations”, caused by the independent development of the compared languages.

Having studied all the similar and differing cognates, the scientists analyzed them using computer algorithms used in evolutionary biology to search for familial relationships between different strains of viruses. The linguists superimposed the result obtained on the map of Eurasia and marked the most probable “cradles” of the mother of all Indo-European languages.

Translated by Vigen Avetisyan

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