posted January 28, 2013 08:54 AM            

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Originally posted by Icygrace:
Hi everyone,
This question has been nagging me since the time i read in star signs that English is the ONLY language of power, and that it was the first language ever spoken. I cannot bring myself to agree with it.
I'm from India, and I know Sanskrit, many words used in English are directly taken from Sankrit. "Karma" itself, the meaning "act", is a word from Sanskrit. Kundalini, Kali (Goddess of rage), Chakra and Siva (Shiva, the destroyer) are all words from Sanskrit.
some words have been manipulated, such as Wagon - from the Sanskrit word, "Wahan", meaning a vehicle, and so on.
So, her interpretation doesn't help me get it. I know that numerology and lexigramming reveal alot from words of English, but what if the letters from Sanskrit also might have numbers assigned to them? and that it might just be hidden from us yet? or is it that (quite silly of me), that Sanskrit might be the first language spoken on earth, but its script could be in English?

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List of languages by first written accounts
See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_written_accounts

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First millennium BC
With the appearance of alphabetic writing in the Early Iron Age,
the number of attested languages increases. With the emergence of
the Brahmic family of scripts, languages of India are attested
from after about 300 BC.[a] The Cypro-Minoan and
Cypriot syllabaries remain undeciphered.

Phoenician - about 1000 BC
Aramaic - c. 950 BC
Hebrew - c. 950 BC: Gezer calendar
Moabite - c. 840 BC: Mesha Stele
Phrygian - c. 800 BC
Ammonite - c. 800 BC: Amman Citadel Inscription
Old North Arabian - c. 800 BC
Old South Arabian - c. 800 BC
Etruscan - c. 700 BC
Umbrian - c. 600 BC
North Picene - c. 600 BC
Lepontic - c. 600 BC
Tartessian - c. 600 BC
Lydian - c. 600 BC[9]
Carian - c. 600 BC[9]
Thracian - c. 6th century BC
Venetic - c. 6th century BC
Old Persian - c. 500 BC: Behistun inscription
Latin - c. 500 BC: Duenos Inscription[15]
South Picene - c. 500 BC
Messapian - c. 500 BC
Gaulish - c. 500 BC
Mixe–Zoque - c. 500 BC: Isthmian script (disputed)
Oscan - c. 400 BC
Iberian - c. 400 BC
Meroitic - c. 300 BC
Faliscan - c. 300 BC
Volscian - c. 275 BC
Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) - c. 260 BC: Edicts of Ashoka[16][17]
Tamil - 3rd century BC: cave inscriptions and potsherds in Tamil Nadu[18]
Galatian - c. 200 BC
Pahlavi - c. 130-170 BC
Celtiberian - c. 100 BC

History Of Writing ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

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Although some people believe Arabic was the first language ever spoken,
Sumerian, Elamitic and Egyptian are contenders for the first written language.
There is no accurate historical record of what language was actually the
first ever spoken. Numerous cultures and religions have repeatedly
put forth claims that their tongue was the original language of humanity,
but none of these postulations have withstood scrutiny. Moreover,
the evolution of language has been a long and slow process,
and what constitutes an actual language,
in distinction from a less advanced form of verbal/gesture communication,
has been the subject of serious debate among linguists. Ultimately,
we shall never know what the earliest occurrence of language was.
We can imagine that language as we know it has existed for
approximately 100,000 years (estimates range from 50,000 to 500,000),
and that the first human language likely arose somewhere in eastern Africa.
One fact is definite: that original language went extinct many millennia ago.

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Written language is our only definite source of information about
linguistic history, and the earliest records of possible "writing"
go back to the Vinča culture of southeastern Europe; these artifacts
date from before 4000 B.C. However, they are not considered to be
first evidence of actual written language; that honor goes to
the Sumerian cuneiform script that was in use in Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.

More here: ]http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/12_early_civilizations.htm[/ quote]
[QUOTE]Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence.
First attested about 3100 bc in southern Mesopotamia,
it flourished during the 3rd millennium bc. About 2000 bc,
Sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by Semitic Akkadian
(Assyro-Babylonian) but continued in written usage almost to
the end of the life of the Akkadian language,
around the beginning of the Christian era.
Sumerian never extended much beyond its original boundaries
in southern Mesopotamia; the small number of its native speakers
was entirely out of proportion to the tremendous importance and
influence Sumerian exercised on the development of the Mesopotamian
and other ancient civilizations in all their stages.
More here: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573229/Sumerian-language

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posted January 28, 2013 09:58 AM            

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Originally posted by Icygrace:
I see..... so does this mean numerology is valid for all languages?? Also lexigramming? Does this change anything about our understanding about the relationship between numbers and letters??
Also, I didn't mean to dis respect anyone or anyone's religion ... just questioning everything

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These may help you:
http://affinitynumerology.com/numerology-tools/non-english-alphabet.php

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