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Finnic 'people of the boats'
BOOK AND ARTICLES ON THE THE VENETIC
LANGUAGE
The ancient Venetic language is known only from
inscriptions found in northern Italy dating to more or less 500BC to
the beginning of the Roman Age. Since around the 6th century of the
modern age, scholars have been looking at them and trying to understand
them. By the 1960's linguistics became involved and, since linguistics
can only process known languages it employed a methodology that
basically CHOOSES more or less arbitrarily that Venetic is from a
particular known language origins, and then uses comparative
methodology to project the known language onto the unknown.
Because scholars have pursued trying to decipher the
inscriptions for a very long time, a very large body or research and
writing has accumulated, including modern linguists tryng their best.
If the body of inscriptions were larger perhaps the Venetic language
would have revealed itself easily by comparative techniques. However,
because the number of complete sentences is less than 100, the
linguistic approaches, that look only at the language itself open the
door to much guessing and suggesting. I embarked on a new approach
which is analogous to determining that the word on a milk carton
probably means 'milk' - in other words to FIRST infer probably meanings
from the archeological context itself and then, having found some good
results, to infer it from its context within sentences. This is
possible because the Venetic inscriptions are short sentences on
objects with a clear context as determined by archeology. There are no
milk cartons, but there are some other contexts that suggest highly
probable meanings, which can then be used for testing in comparative
analysis across the inscriptions until a meaning that works well
everywhere is found. It is only when some good translations in this
direct way is known, we can begin to determine if the results are
beginning to look like a known language. The project is documented in
the book, the first item in the pdf menu below. The web page below, and
the article called "BRIEF INTRODUCTION...." are short overviews to the
subject
PDF DOCUMENTS
ALSO FOUND ON ACADEMIA.EDU
(REQUIRE LARGE TABLET OR LAPTOP AND PDF VIEWER)
This section features my book documenting my interpreting the
inscriptions of the Veneti of the Adriatic, made in the centuries
before the rise of the Romans. Articles cover spects of the Veneti and
their language individually. All the articles have also been put on my
page at academia.edu
BOOK
THE VENETIC
LANGUAGE:
An Ancient Language From a New Perspecive-FINAL (14 mb)
2006-2013 ( The first attempt in deciphering Venetic inscriptions
without forcing a known language on it. Former attempts have simply
assumed the inscriptions were related to known languages, and then
forcing that assumption on the inscriptions - which can give some
results insofar as all languages have similarities, but had never
achieved more than vague suppositions, and contrived results. 430
downloads at academia.edu as of April 2016)
PDF ARTICLES ON THE VENETIC LANGUAGE
DECIPHERING
OF ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS AND ITS PITFALLS: THE AUTHOR’S EXPERIENCE WITH
VENETI INSCRIPTIONS
Recommended initial reading for linguists and sceptics concerning
methodologies of deciphering ancient inscriptions, and also for
scholars who are or wish to decipher unknown ancient inscriptions. This
also explores the good bad and ugly in deciphering practices(1.3 mb)
THE MANY
CONFUSING THEORIES
ABOUT THE VENETI
A short paper for scholars new to the subject of the
“Veneti” and to the beliefs about the origins of
European Civilization (0.6 mb) (Orientation to the different points
of view and fantastic theories past and present)
BRIEF
INTRODUCTION:
THE VENETIC LANGUAGE: An Ancient Language from a New Perspective (1.6
mb) (The simplest summary of the main document
for newcomers)
A
DESCRIPTION
OF VENETIC PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR Two papers from chapters in THE
VENETIC LANGUAGE An Ancient Language from a New Perspective: FINAL
(2.0mb)
(A full summary including both the paper on grammar and the paper
regarding the dots in the inscriptions that show pronunciation)
RHEA AT BOTH NORTH AND
SOUTH
ENDS OF THE ANCIENT VENETIC AMBER TRADE Investigating Venetic
Inscription references to Rhea and Historical Information about Worship
of Rhea (2.1 mb)
see the book for the full documentation of the study including
methodology