Please hover over the topic of your choice, then click to go to that topic on this blog

2008 2008_US_presidential_elections 2009 2009_public_events 2009_twitter 4_years A_grade_personality A_life_of_a_female_doctor ADD afghanisthan All content is copyrighted American_humor Amoeba_mouth anthropology apple archive art Asking_for_help Aussie_mean Aussie_Sheila Australian_humor australian_television bad_grammar Bankrupcy Barbeque_parties Beach_etiquette behavious_analysis Beijing_olympics_2008 Big_fat_blur Bill_clinton blog Blog_description blog_labels blonde body British_humor Brown eyes bubbles buddha building_technology bush Bush_speeches cancer caucus changeability child_pornography chinese_script chopsticks Clate clueless_journalism comedy comments comraderie conan conformity conviction Credit card Credit_card_debt creepy_men Dating_an_older_person De_Bakey death Debit_card Debt decisions Deep_sleep diagnosis dinner_parties dirty_sheets disney_channel diving doctor documentary domestic_abuse Down's syndrome Dr.House dravidian dream_journal dreams drudgery earthquakes economy educational_reforms election elvis presley entertainers_and_goodwill equal_work_equal_pay Eurasian_steppes exit_speech face_patterns fake_olympic_opening_ceremony family_chores Female_surgeon film_making finance friendship Gender_stereotyping gene_pool Goals goh Govt Grammy_nominees guitar happiness harrassment headache healing health Hillary hippie home homelessness housekeeper housewife housewives human_relationships Human_rights human_spirit human_trafficking humanity humility_pie hyprocricy idiots ignorance Illegal immigrants japan japanese_mafia jason Jay_leno Jazz jealousy judo juno Kenny G knowledge lakes Larry_king_live last_lecture late_pregnancy laundry Lawlessness laziness letcher Library_study_versus_home_study life_experiences Life_goals linguistics.tamil Lip_syncing logic loneliness.sociology love mafia manners math Math_and_medicine mayan medical_ethics meet_the_parents memory Men michael_jackson michel phelps MILK minority moon_struck mother mother_day Mother's_day_gifts mothers Mr.U music mutual_appreciation My_JM_comments nature_photographs new_year Nicholas cage night_time_talk_show Nightmares nirvana Nov_2008_elections obama obama_speeches Obama.Equal_pay_for_equal_work Obsessed Obsessive_repititive_thought_disorder Olympic_fireworks olympic_parade olympics olympics_closing_ceremony Olympics_opening_ceremony open_mindedness pangea.evolution_of_man panic_attack.Differential_diagnosis parenting patronized_by_male_collegues Pay_scale_discrepancy_based_on_gender peace peggy plastic_surgery Politics pop_culture popularity_contests positivity_transfer prejudice premonitions presidential_elections presidential_speech_writers primaries privacy_laws Pro_choice Pro_life psychology rain ramble Ramble_blog randy_pausch realationships relationships replica respect Rob Sarah_Palin Saxaphone science Sean_penn self_esteem Self_sufficiency sexual_frustration sexuality Short_term_list skies smoking Social_alien sociology soulmate stem_cell_research steve_jobs subconscious_desires summer super_typos supermarket swimming_pool_behaviour talk_show_hosts teachers teen_years Telecom_eavedropping_law Television tennis_starlet The_insider time_flies time_passes to_do_list tobacco tonight_show trees twitter Ukranian_folk_tales vegetarianism venus_williams Vice_presidential candidate voters whorls women women_asking_for_a_raise_at_work women_in_the_workforce Women's Issues womens_work_rights yakuza

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Mayan and Dravidian-Linguistics and Anthropology

Okay, first off, I hope my readers know about the theory of Pangaea
Pangea was the huge mass of land which included all continents when they were stuck together.This Pangaea then split and separated with the ocean forming a natural barrier between the split landmasses thus leading to continents. 
This theory is very important in Anthropology coz this explains how in each continent similar species managed to evolve especially since certain species don't have the capacity to cross over oceans eg, humans and elephants , crocodiles etc. 
Of course, since birds do migrate over oceans it might have been possible for certain species to have moved to another continent even after Pangaea split up , but then humans prolly migrated to various continents prior to when Pangaea split.Because we ofcourse are not able to physically swim across oceans without any aid and the Pangaea theory is the only one that can explain how similar humans exist in different continents though separated by large oceans which act as natural barriers for migration.
        Why am i babbling on and on about Pangaea?
See, I was watching this movie with Mayan dialogues(yes, you guessed it right, Apocalypto) and then suddenly realized that some words in Mayan are pronounced the same way and mean the same too as some words in Dravidian.
  For some of you not in the know,Dravidian languages are as old or even older than Mayan languages.Mayan is south American and partly north American as well, while Dravidian is south east Asian and south Asian in origin. For eg. The word kattu, means tie up both in Mayan and Dravidian origin language.Tamil being one of the oldest languages of the world which has a written grammar instruction booklet is a Dravidian language. Both Mayan and Tamil are still spoken by population groups in the world.only , the quality and the vocabulary differ quite a bit from what they were spoken centuries ago.
Also speaking of the similarity between Mayan and Dravidian languages, I also realized that there is physical similarities too. Both Mayan and Dravidian races-The pure races are of a bronze to dark skin toned short stumpy sturdy people with almost almond shaped eyes and dark hair and eye color. of course, due to mass migration, very few pure gened Dravidian or Mayans exist anymore, but then, yes, the pure races are also quite similar in some physical characteristics.
  Which is why i spoke of the Pangaea theory...prolly the same group of people migrated across land to reach south India or vice versa..Ya know.. Anything is possible. History is after all speculation and hypothesis which may or may not be true.
                   

2 comments:

bala ck said...

im from tamilnadu and im a dravidian. sounds really interesting.... but language transactions in trade of those days is also possible.... even now i found lotts of tamil words in global oceanic trading.

LeCinQBlog said...

sorry for such a delay in getting around to noticing that you posted a comment and then approving it for publishing.
Yes, "trade", especially across seas, or trade along the silk route or other such business routes, is one big reason in WORLD HISTORY for common words to occur in varied languages spoken in regions all along those business routes.There are examples of how some cooking techniques or recipes traveled along these trade routes too.
Having said that...MAYAN is far too ancient ...ancient enough to not have allowed a trade route to them.They were quite a secluded group of people ,which is why I suspect that the common words were probably from an even earlier incident, than when trade across sea or land happened.
Thanks for the comment.Cheers.

Post a Comment

Please take time to Comment! Exchange of ideas and honest discussions in the comments section are highly welcome!

Popular Posts

My Email Address

CONTACT.LECINQBLOG@GMAIL(DOT)COM
There is a dot between CONTACT and LECINQBLOG

About Me

My photo
My Blog DOESN'T HAVE AN RSS feed.Due to that reason newer entries will NOT be automatically updated on your feeds or other Bookmarking or Reader applications. If you wish to be informed each time a new blog entry is added to my blog Please EMAIL me with a request, so that I can add your email to my POSTING LIST.Please mention the NAME OF THE BLOG you wish to be updated about. I write Five different blogs which you can sample by clicking on links placed on top of this blog page

Search This Blog

This is an AD-FREE blog.

I write this blog in English.TRANSLATE it into your native language for easy comprehension

Site Meter