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More and more worthless pseudolinguistics. Like this, from Johannes Goropius Becanus - Wikipedia (1519-1572): Linguistic theories Goropius theorized that Antwerpian Brabantic, spoken in the region between the Scheldt and Meuse Rivers, was the original language spoken in Paradise. Goropius believed t...

I'll now do close relatives: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter Old English: faeder, mōdor, brōþor, sweostor, sunu, dōhtor Latin: pater, māter, frater, soror, filius, filia Cls. Greek: πατήρ (patḗr), μήτηρ (mḗtēr), ἀδελφός (adelphós),ἀδελφή (adelphḗ), υἱός (huiós), θυγάτηρ (thugátēr) Lit...

The Numbers List -- I'll copy out of it. English one two three four five six seven eight nine ten /wän/, /tû/ /thrî/, /for/, /faiv/ /siks/, /sevän/, /eit/ /nain/ /tin/ Old English án twá þrí féower fíf sex seofon eahta niɣon tíen Latin ūnus duo trēs quattuor quinque sex septem octō novem decem (Old...

The word 'Horn' as barely changed, in Hebrew this is קָרַן (Qeren), in Latin this is Cornus. While ignoring all the lack of correspondence. Yes, ignoring. Let's look at first and second person singular personal pronouns. Indo-European ones are standalone, with separate nominative and oblique versio...

Hebrew: 1: ani, 2: shtayim, 3: ata, 4: mi, ma, 5: lashon, 6: shem, 7: ayin, 8: leb, 9: shen, 10: lo, ein, 11: tsiporen, 12: kina, 13: -, 14: mayim, 15: (to die) met, 16: -, 17: yareach, 18: yad, 19: laila, 20: dam, 21: keren, 22: male, 23: shemesh, 24: ozen, 25: melach Arabic: 1: ʔana, 2: ʔiθnân, 3:...

Casually tossing out letters rather than looking for sound correspondences. What lame pseudo-linguistics. Back to real linguistics. The list again: 1: I/me, 2: two/pair, 3: thou/thee/you, 4: who/what, 5: tongue, 6: name, 7: eye, 8: heart, 9: tooth, 10: no/not (both ordinary negative and prohibitive)...

I used "to die" instead of "dead", and "tear (from eye)" and "nit" were absent. Old English: 1: ic, me-, 2: twēġen, twā, tū, 3: þū, 4: hwā, hwæt, 5: tunge, 6: nama, 7: ēage, 8: heorte, 9: tōþ, 10: ne, 11: fingernæġel, 12: lūs, 13: -, 14: wæter, 15: (to die) st...

No explanations of what the Hebrew words are supposed to mean. MichiganToday has an article by linguist Vitaly Shevoroshkin. He described how his colleague Aaron Dolgopolsky constructed a sort of mini Swadesh list. He searched through some 140 languages of Europe and Asia to find out which meanings ...

Here are some comparative-linguistics resources. These are word lists without any grammar, but it should be easy to tell which languages are most closely related. Appendix:Swadesh lists - Wiktionary -- meanings whose word forms tend to be very stable The Numbers List -- 1 to 10 in a large number of ...

Pseudolinguistic tripe. /m/ is usually very stable. I looked at some tables of sound correspondences, and I found that /m/ is very stable in Indo-European, Semitic, and Uralic, at least.