Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide: African Heritage, Mesopotamian Roots, Indian Culture & Britiah ColonialismIn a blow against the British Empire, Khan suggests that London deliberately set India's Hindu and Muslim populations against each other in the 1800s by artificially splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. "Divide and rule" - the British were experts at that. All language is political - and so is the boundary between one language and another. The author analyzes the origins of Urdu, one of the earliest known languages, and propounds the iconoclastic views that, (1) Hindi came from pre-Aryan Dravidian and Austric-Munda (rooted in the Middle East/Mesopotamia), not from Aryan Sanskrit, and (2) Hindi's script came from the Aramaic system, similar to Greek. Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide integrates the "out of Africa" linguistic evolution theory with the fossil linguistics of the Middle East, and discards the theory that Sanskrit descended from a hypothetical proto-Indo European language and by degeneration created dialects, Urdu/Hindi and others. It shows that several tribes from the Middle East created the hybrid by cumulative evolution. The oldest groups, Austric and Dravidian, starting in 8000 BC, provided the grammar/syntax plus about 60% of vocabulary, Sanskrit added 10% after 1500 BC and Arabic/Persian 20-30% after AD 800. The book reveals Mesopotamia as the linguistic melting pot of Sumerian, Babylonian, Elamite, Hittite-Hurrian-Mitanni, with a common script and vocabularies shared mutually and passed on to Indo-European, Sanskrit, Dravidian, Arabic and then to Hindi/Urdu; in fact the author locates oldest evidence of Sanskrit in Syria. The book exposes the myths of Sanskrit or Hebrew as "revealed" languagesand examines the fiction of linguistic races, i.e. Aryan, Semitic. The book supports the "one world concept" and reveals the potential of Urdu/Hindi to unite all genetic elements, races and regions of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. Khan bolsters his hypothesis with copious technical linguistic examples and quotes masters of Urdu/Hindi prose and poetry of the last three centuries, showcasing the passionate expressiveness of the language. * Abdul Jamil Khan, MD, served as chairman of a teaching hospital and as a professor of pediatrics he taught infant speech development in New York. From there, his research has extended into linguistics and history. His impetus stems from his early education, as he learned six languages by 10th grade and had to face political claims regarding "Divine Arabic" and "Divine Sanskrit," and experienced the tragedies of the British division of India and its language. |
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... TA - Tamil TE - Telugu URD - Urdu Language Families and Types AA - Austro-Asiatic AM- Austric-Munda DR - Dravidian GEAS - Grand Euro-Asiatic Super Family IA - Indo-Aryan IE - Indo-European LBW - Language of vii Abbreviations Abbreviations.
... TA - Tamil TE - Telugu URD - Urdu Language Families and Types AA - Austro-Asiatic AM- Austric-Munda DR - Dravidian GEAS - Grand Euro-Asiatic Super Family IA - Indo-Aryan IE - Indo-European LBW - Language of vii Abbreviations Abbreviations.
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... AUSTRIC - MUNDA - DRAVIDIAN AND OLDEST HINDI / URDU 4.0 INTRODUCTION 4.1 PRE - AUSTRIC PHASE 4.2 AUSTRIC PEOPLE'S CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 37 38 39 41 44 45 47 49 49 51 53 53 53 53 53 53 55 56 57 59 59 59 61 61 62 64 66 68 70 73 74 74 76 78 ...
... AUSTRIC - MUNDA - DRAVIDIAN AND OLDEST HINDI / URDU 4.0 INTRODUCTION 4.1 PRE - AUSTRIC PHASE 4.2 AUSTRIC PEOPLE'S CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 37 38 39 41 44 45 47 49 49 51 53 53 53 53 53 53 55 56 57 59 59 59 61 61 62 64 66 68 70 73 74 74 76 78 ...
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... AUSTRIC OR MUNDA LANGUAGE 4.4.1 Munda and Its Dialects 4.4.2 Linguistic Features 4.4.3 Prefixes and Infixes of Austric - Munda 4.5 MUNDA - SPECIFIC VOCABULARY 4.6 MUNDA GENDER , NUMBER AND SYNTAX 4.7 GENERAL MUNDA VOCABULARY IN URDU ...
... AUSTRIC OR MUNDA LANGUAGE 4.4.1 Munda and Its Dialects 4.4.2 Linguistic Features 4.4.3 Prefixes and Infixes of Austric - Munda 4.5 MUNDA - SPECIFIC VOCABULARY 4.6 MUNDA GENDER , NUMBER AND SYNTAX 4.7 GENERAL MUNDA VOCABULARY IN URDU ...
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... Austric-Munda and Dravidian, followed much later by others such as Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian; this apparently unsettles the currently held view of Urdu/Hindi as a daughter dialect of Sanskrit, a 19th -century idea rooted in Hindu ...
... Austric-Munda and Dravidian, followed much later by others such as Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian; this apparently unsettles the currently held view of Urdu/Hindi as a daughter dialect of Sanskrit, a 19th -century idea rooted in Hindu ...
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... Austric and its syntax inherited from Dravidian rule out the theory that it consists of alleged dialects of highly inflected SKT . SKT provides only 7–10 % of its vocabulary . The bulk of the vocab- ulary , about 60 % ( chapters IV and ...
... Austric and its syntax inherited from Dravidian rule out the theory that it consists of alleged dialects of highly inflected SKT . SKT provides only 7–10 % of its vocabulary . The bulk of the vocab- ulary , about 60 % ( chapters IV and ...
Contents
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Chapter II Phonetics Linguistics and Genetics DNA | 33 |
Source of Semitic Dravidian and IndoEuropeanSanskrit | 59 |
Chapter IV AustricMundaDravidian and Oldest HindiUrdu | 83 |
Chapter V SanskritPrakrit and OldUrduHindi | 109 |
British Bengal | 225 |
Chapter XI Partition of Language Land and Hearts | 253 |
Chapter XII Urdu through the 20th Century | 275 |
Chapter XIII Hindis Evolution through the 20th Century | 295 |
A Show Biz Power | 315 |
Chapter XV UrduHindi of America and the World | 333 |
Common Origin | 347 |
Chapter XVII Mesopotamian Realism and ReClassification | 363 |
New Substrates from the Middle East | 133 |
Chapter VII Language of Saints and Sultans | 153 |
Chapter VIII Secular Moghuls and Secular Language | 171 |
Official Language of British India | 197 |
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Page 17 - Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 18 - I can only declare my belief that the language of Noah is irretrievably lost. After diligent search I can not find a single word used in common by the Arabian, Indian, and Tartar families, before the intermixture of dialects occasioned by the Mohammedan conquests.