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User:MGA

2007-12-13T04:04:28Z

MGA: New page: Ahlan wa sahlan yaa Kunsarwapiydiya.

Ahlan wa sahlan yaa Kunsarwapiydiya.

Talk:Hindi

2007-12-13T04:01:51Z

MGA:

I tried to remove the bias where this article implicitly states as fact the theory that Hindi evolved from Proto-Indo-European, a language theorized by linguistic evolutionists to have been spoken at about 3900 BC, a date incompatible with Christian teachings about all languages being created by God in the third millennium BC. My attempt to create balance was quickly reverted by [[User:MatteeNeutra]], so now again, there's a strong pro-evolution bias in the article. I wonder if this is really fitting for a conservative encyclopedia.
--[[User:Brtkrbzhnv|Brtkrbzhnv]] 12:01, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

There is no such thing as "linguistic evolutionism" -- but indeed, languages do change over time, if you want to call that "evolving" then you could waste time arguing against it, but a quick look at Chaucer, Shakespeare, or the King James Bible will show yout that English, like all languages, has changed. As for the 3900 BC date, that should not be an issue, since according to CreationWiki, even "Young Earth" creationists believe that, using "Biblical and other data for calculating a date for Abraham, we can calculate that the universe and the Earth were created approximately 6000 years ago."

[[User:Boethius|Boethius]] 12:08, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

There's not a "pro-evolution bias", just a "pro-let's-be-accurate" bias. [[User:MGA|MGA]] 23:01, 12 December 2007 (EST)

Talk:Hindi

2007-12-13T03:56:47Z

MGA:

User talk:Brooker

2007-03-23T00:33:12Z

MGA:

==Bastardisation of the English Language==
Go ahead and tell me how you believe Americans have 'bastardised' the English language, would you? [[User:MGA|MGA]] 20:33, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

User talk:Brooker

2007-03-23T00:32:59Z

MGA: New page: ==Bastardisation of the English Language== Go ahead and tell me how you believe Americans have 'bastardised' the English language, would you?

==Bastardisation of the English Language==
Go ahead and tell me how you believe Americans have 'bastardised' the English language, would you?

Swahili

2007-03-22T20:31:28Z

MGA: that doesn't make sense, take it to my talk page if you think so

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A [[Bantu]] language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili served as a trade language across Africa, and therefore is known today by millions of people in many countries.

Syntactically, Swahili is largely SVO.

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Swahili

2007-03-22T08:24:59Z

MGA: most definitely *not* isolating, and not ergative, or OSV; same source

Swahili

2007-03-22T08:22:09Z

MGA: Swahili has no clicks or tones; source: The World's Major Languages

Hebrew

2007-03-22T03:25:45Z

MGA: oops

Ancient Hebrew was the tongue of the ancient Israelites, who were [[God]]'s chosen people at the time of the Old Testament. Hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Arabic.

The [[Old Testament]] was written in Hebrew and [[Aramaic]]. The Hebrew Old Testament scriptures contain many prefigurations of the coming Messiah, [[Jesus Christ]]. These images are beautiful and poetic.

The original Hebrew died out as a spoken language. Modern Hebrew is a restoration of Ancient Hebrew with many differences to the older form.

Ancient Hebrew has been claimed to have a [[recursive]] grammar, unlike the famous case of [[Piraha]]. Many linguists dispute this claim, however, and it has been shown to be conclusively false for modern Hebrew, which has a completely [[non-recursive]] grammar.

== References ==

Noam Chomsky, "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew". University of Pennsylvania Master's Thesis, 1951.

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Greek language

2007-03-22T03:19:14Z

MGA:

Greek is the language of ancient and modern [[Greece]]; it is also the language in which the [[New Testament]] was written. Early Christianity spread and became popular through use of the Greek language.

Modern Greek is the modern variety of the Greek language, spoken in Greece and Cyprus.

[[Category:Languages]]

Greek language

2007-03-22T03:18:38Z

MGA: basic info, removed curious info

Greek is the language of ancient [[Greece]]; it is also the language in which the [[New Testament]] was written. Early Christianity spread and became popular through use of the Greek language.

Modern Greek is the modern variety of the Greek language, spoken in Greece and Cyprus.

[[Category:Languages]]

Hebrew

2007-03-22T03:15:04Z

MGA: If you can provide sources, do so. Don't make stuff up, please. :(

Ancient Hebrew was the tongue of the ancient Israelites, who were [[God]]'s chosen people at the time of the Old Testament. Hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Arabic.

The [[Old Testament]] was written in Hebrew and [[Aramaic]]. The Hebrew Old Testament scriptures contain many prefigurations of the coming Messiah, [[Jesus Christ]]. These images are beautiful and poetic.

The original Hebrew died out as a spoken language. Modern Hebrew is a restoration of Ancient Hebrew with many differences to the older form.

== References ==

Noam Chomsky, "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew". University of Pennsylvania Master's Thesis, 1951.

[[Category:Languages]]

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Sumerian

2007-03-22T03:10:13Z

MGA: Sumerian has no sister languages, and it not related to Basque or Georgian; it is a language isolate; is not written in hieroglyphs.

Sumerian is a term used to describe a person or object from the ancient kingdom of Sumeria. Sumerian was written in cuneiform. Sumerian is known for its unique syntactic features, which include an object-object-verb-subject word order and the use of the morpheme ''p'' before inanimate nouns and non-gendered substantives. It also has a tendency to employ left dislocations, in much the same way that some American Indian languages do.

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Latin

2007-03-22T03:05:53Z

MGA: Latin is not related to Etruscan, and did not have ejectives.

An [[Indo-European]] language of the Italic family; its closest relative was [[Umbric]], which is now extinct. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, from which all the Romance languages are derived. These languages include Spanish, Romanian, Portugese, and Italian.

Latin grammar is marked by an extensive system of noun cases and verbal inflection. Noun cases are organized along nominative-accusative lines, with several other oblique cases also used. Verbal morphology distinguishes both case and aspect. Phonologically, Latin is generally similar to other western languages of the Indo-European family.
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Urdu

2007-03-22T03:03:19Z

MGA: Urdu is not written in hieroglyphs...

A language spoken in [[Pakistan]] and northern [[India]]. Urdu and [[Hindi]] are mutually intelligible and many linguists consider them to be dialects of the same language, rather than two separate languages. However, most speakers of these languages disagree, pointing out that they are separated by a political barrier. In addition, Hindi is written with a syllabic alphabet descended from [[Sanskrit]], while Urdu is written in a modified form of the Arabic script.
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