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There are 2 ways that a language can spread <b>
1- A tribe have many children which make also many childrens which lead to language spread.
2-by power of some kind-military,economic or even spiritual power,or a combination of all.
By military-the winners become kings and the choosen language is promoted.Usualy this process take about 500 years and few millitary elites stay that long in power.Only 1 out of 10 ocupations can change the native language.
By economy-some language become lingua franca among the trade rutes like aramaic in the middle east.This is an unlikely procees, leading more to borowings but not language change . </b>
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Lot of these are unsubstantiated without any solid evidence or any real evidence of the mechanism for language transfer.
There should be evidence of the final destination and also some evidence of the same language at the source region. None of them show any evidence of the same language in the source region. Nobody sees that it is odd.
Occupation by an outside tribe does not chnage the language much unless the tribe becomes part of the local population and merges genetically with the local population which might take atleast 1000+ years. We are talking about the most populated region of the HUMAN world in those times.
Africa, Coastal region of the Asian landmass including middle east and the ancient civilizations such as Indus valley, Babylon, Egypt, Greek/Roman regions were the most populated by HUMAN population. There is no way that some outside language can come and overpower another local language.
There could be influence of one language at the periphery of the region and that seems logical. Deep cultural roots, traditions and social order cannot be displaced by some outside tribes who are trying to survive in a nomadic region with no signs of civilization memory.
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Few people who are familiar with gentic and genetic anthropology have commented that any gene pool to get assimilated deep inside another large population it will take years in the range of 50000 years i.e. Fifty thousand years.
There is no way that some tribe has penetrated another human habiation and assimilated genetically in less than 5000 years.</b>
There are 2 ways that a language can spread <b>
1- A tribe have many children which make also many childrens which lead to language spread.
2-by power of some kind-military,economic or even spiritual power,or a combination of all.
By military-the winners become kings and the choosen language is promoted.Usualy this process take about 500 years and few millitary elites stay that long in power.Only 1 out of 10 ocupations can change the native language.
By economy-some language become lingua franca among the trade rutes like aramaic in the middle east.This is an unlikely procees, leading more to borowings but not language change . </b>
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Lot of these are unsubstantiated without any solid evidence or any real evidence of the mechanism for language transfer.
There should be evidence of the final destination and also some evidence of the same language at the source region. None of them show any evidence of the same language in the source region. Nobody sees that it is odd.
Occupation by an outside tribe does not chnage the language much unless the tribe becomes part of the local population and merges genetically with the local population which might take atleast 1000+ years. We are talking about the most populated region of the HUMAN world in those times.
Africa, Coastal region of the Asian landmass including middle east and the ancient civilizations such as Indus valley, Babylon, Egypt, Greek/Roman regions were the most populated by HUMAN population. There is no way that some outside language can come and overpower another local language.
There could be influence of one language at the periphery of the region and that seems logical. Deep cultural roots, traditions and social order cannot be displaced by some outside tribes who are trying to survive in a nomadic region with no signs of civilization memory.
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Few people who are familiar with gentic and genetic anthropology have commented that any gene pool to get assimilated deep inside another large population it will take years in the range of 50000 years i.e. Fifty thousand years.
There is no way that some tribe has penetrated another human habiation and assimilated genetically in less than 5000 years.</b>