Organic Magyar Linguistics
Susan Tomory
Linguists of the Western world base their research by necessity upon the known, Indo-European linguistic rules when they study the evolution of
languages. These rules rest upon the present day use of languages and never touch upon the first moments of their birth. Placing the already known and
the newly discovered languages onto the map of linguistic achievements according to the Indo-European world view necessitates an incredibly precise
work, which almost achieves its goals. Western linguists still continue to battle the outcomes of this almost condition since they feel that behind
the collected material there is another, unknown linguistic layer onto which they are unable to put their finger. They call this layer "proto
language" no matter where its occurrence is. Linguists identified such a proto language in the most ancient cultural strata up to our days, or
almost our days. They found a Proto Sumerian, Proto Hittite, Proto Greek, Proto Celtic language and we could continue this enumeration of proto
languages beyond Eurasia to the Proto Language of other continents and distant cultures. This mysterious Proto Language occupies a thick branch of the
vast tree of languages, as the November 5, 1990 article of the U.S. News and World Report so nicely illustrated. Here all the twigs and branches of
the language tree originate from a Proto Language which leads us to the trunk of the tree which they call "mother tongue", the birth mother
of all languages. They do this without ever defining the concept of the mother tongue.
Western linguists - after they very precisely catalogued the languages - came to the conclusion that the Proto Indo-European language's birthplace was in Anatolia, in today's Turkey and it spread from here to all parts of Europe some 8.000 years ago. The British archaeologist Colin Renfrew holds this theory. He also emphasizes that the birth of languages predates the birth of literacy. From an archaeological point of view he believes that the birth and spread of language was the result of the spread of the peaceful culture of cereal growing societies. Grover S. Krantz, the late professor of anthropology at the University of Washington who established the pattern of spread of language groups, held similar beliefs. He identified twelve language branches from which he originated all the known European languages. He placed the birth of languages to a pre-Mesolithic time with the Carpathian basin as its epicenter.