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Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction Illustrated Edition

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This book is about the invention of ancient names and words. Virtually everyone's name hides an agglutinated shorthand sentence which can in most cases be recovered, as is explained with hundreds of examples. The technique of decoding and translating many Ogam inscriptions found in Ireland and Scotland is explained. Invented languages are discussed in detail and their relationship with the universal language of the Neolithics is shown.

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July 6, 2006
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Edo Nyland, doing research in the fields of Linguistic Archaeology, is digging artefacts of language. In this book Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction, he lets us take part in his adventures of recovering stone-age and medieval history by analysis of language.

Analyzing the place names of the Odyssey, he made the interesting discovery that names and words may be interpreted as a shorthand, having been agglutinated from core words of the Basque language. He identified a subset of the Basque language, the core words of which have come through five millenia in almost unchanged form, as the nearest equivalent of the neolithic universal language which has been spoken in Europe and the Near East before the 'babylonian speech confusion.'

Applying his new decoding method to names and words from many other language families, he arrived at the startling result that words of ancient languages like Sanskrit and Sumerian as well as of modern European languages like English, Spanish or German, can be decoded by the same method into Basque sentences revealing hidden meaning. This discovery is supporting the hypothesis of monogenesis of languages, according to Genesis 11.1: ..".now the whole earth had one language..."

As ancient words and names have come with meanings attached to them which cannot be substantiated by the hidden meaning decoded from them, a great deal of falsified or censored history can be recovered, revealing that many languages have been invented from the universal language, according to Genesis 11.7: ..".come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Also by Edo Nyland:
Odysseus and the Sea Peoples: A Bronze Age History of Scotland

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trafford Publishing; Illustrated edition (July 6, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 574 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1552126684
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1552126684
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.17 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.3 x 10 inches

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revLea

Great book!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2016

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I discovered the website for this before it became the book. I really enjoy the information and the effort that went into it. If you study old/dead language for a hobby, you'll want this book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2004

I have my reservations about some of Nylands methodology. However, he was on top of the the connection between various European peoples and the Basque long before mainstream academics were. He made the claim that Welsh and some other languages/peoples had connections to Basque. Mainstream scholars laughed at him. However, genetic studies proved that there was something that needed to be looked at very carefully here. For example, the Welsh people have a high frequency of Y-chromosomes very similar to those found among the Basque. This was not predicted by mainstream linquists-but it was predicted by Nyland.

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James M Donahue

Strange but interesting

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014

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Presents several novel ideas about the evolution of modern European and Mediterranean languages with little or no background or references for the development of his ideas, Seems a bit thought provoking, but very idiosyncratic.

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Ogam/Ogham made easy, but....

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2021

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Edo Nyland's take on deciphering ogham is good, but he's a worshipper of the Goddess religion and, like most English, knows nothing about German anything, because they don't realize that the Angles were/are the Danites/Canaanites/international banking cabal/Phoenicians/Venetians/Rothschilds et al/Gog and Magog/ etc., etc., etc., and the Saxons, who married into the Angles, accepted the Babylonian religion system, including their language. Read Gen. 48-49, Amos 8:14 (needs a lexicon to fully understand), Isaiah 28, Rev. 2:9, 3:9, and chapter 7 (Joseph is actually the righteous Ephraim).
The British royal family are members/descendants of the Black Nobility/Venetians/Guelps/Welfs (meaning whelps)/Lombards/etc.
Just a little research outside of the official British narrative and state propaganda tools will prove the truth of what I'm saying, but that also means you're going to have to seriously dig into the Bible and other ancient Hebraic texts. I also recommend The Believer, Spirit of the Steppe, Santur????(sp?) all on YouTube. Encyclopedia Britannica and Wiki anything are nothing but propaganda rags with very little truth in them - avoid them like the plague. For books I highly recommend "Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages", by Elkan Nathan Adler and "The Emergence of Hinduism From Christianity", by M.M. Ninan - both free downloads from the Internet Archive.
I didn't read the rest of the book....yet, but I'll get there. I have read the chapter about the German language and I know quite a bit about German/its many dialects, its origins, history and Germanic history (including tribal history), customs, DNA, etc., etc.
I DO recommend "Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction", but only for the ogham and the keys to understanding how to decipher many other written languages.
I hope this is helpful to those interested in studying linguistics.

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Will

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2013

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This book provides an interesting and well thought out theory on how languages evolved. Makes alot of sense to me.

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Dennis J. Stallings

Pure, unadulterated nonsense!

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2017

Pure, unadulterated nonsense! It's wide open to a reduction to absurdity attack, though it takes some imagination to think of something *more* absurd. Maybe use his method to show that all human languages are descended from Klingon?

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Marc

Plumbing the Depths of Human Stupidity

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2010

I've never seen anything as ridiculous as this book. Nyland doesn't speak Basque. (Let that sink in for a second.) Instead, he spends hours paging through "the best Basque dictionary" to find words that fit his mad-scientist theory that all languages come from Basque, each syllable in every word being derived from a part of some Basque word. That some of the "Basque" words he finds are obvious borrowings from Spanish (e.g., 'eboluzio' from 'evolución'), thus rendering his "proofs" circular, doesn't daunt him, much less the fact that he's clearly using a modern Basque dictionary in his quest to prove the Basque provenance of thousand-year-old inscriptions in some cases. (This is like saying that an instance of the word 'bit' appearing in Beowulf (written in Old English) should actually be interpreted to mean 'a piece of information' because that's one of the definitions in a modern English dictionary.) Linguistic crackpottery doesn't come in a much purer form than this.

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Gerald Van Waes

unique approach on Basque language and language linguistics

Reviewed in Germany on January 9, 2014

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While many people are sceptic about this approach, for me it is convincing enough that languages are developed via invention, not via spontaneous development. Basque language might have been used as a reference give the new languages significance. It becomes clear that with the new choices of words a hidden meaning is given to it. Only a shame that Arabic has not been worked out to it, because that would have made an interesting link as well.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2012

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I thought this book would satisfy an interest I have in the late neolithic people and the languages of the time. While it does offer a lot of interesting history and possibly some progress into an existing and exciting theory, the scale of Edo Nylands beliefs greatly surpasses the probable truth.

He seems to have simply discovered a formula (to his great ignorance) for creating something out of nothing and applied it every language that suited him, using a Basque dictionary that suited him. And he doesn't speak Basque, or any of the other languages that he talks about, which makes him seem even more like a forester (his previous occupation) than anything else.

It's not to be taken with absolute seriousness, but certainly with an open mind. But don't buy it if you think the price is too much, because you will not be satisfied.

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Rebecca

New age, not academic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2014

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I bought this as an ebook, and have deleted it from my kindle. Noithing to do with either linguistics or archaeology, as I understand them; rather a thesis on how everyone in some highly romanticised 'earlier time' all spoke the same language. Badly written, poorly argued and based on thin air.

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