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==Connection with the Biblical Japheth==

==Connection with the Biblical Japheth==

There seems to be adequate linguistic evidence to indicate that a proto Indo-European language could indeed have existed.  It is was not written, as many languages even today are not, there could have been no manuscript evidence for its existence.  Some creationist linguists have proposed that the language might well have been spoken by Jspheth or his early descendants, whom most Bible scholars believe populated Europe following the dispersion at the Biblical Tower of Babel.<ref>Lorella Rouster, The Hypothetical Indo-European Language, Creation Science & Humanities Quarterly, Vol. I. No. 3, Spring 1979, reprinted Winter 1983, p. 15</ref>If this scenario is correct, creationist Lorella Rouster has suggested that we might even call it the "Japhethitic" language, in analogy with "Semitic" and "Hamitic", other well-known language groups going back to about the same time.<ref>Lorella Rouster, The Hypothetical Indo-European Language, Creation Science & Humanities Quarterly, Vol. I. No. 3, Spring 1979, reprinted Winter 1983, p. 15.</ref>  There are presently nine language families that have been identified by linguists--Indo-European, Finno-Ugrian, Semitic, Hamitic, Indo-Chinese, Mayo-Polynesian, Turco-Tartar, Dravidian, and Bantu, with about a hundred language groups that have not yet been classified.  These groups provide adequate base for the dispersion of languages at Babel.<ref>Frederick Bodmer, The Loom of Language, New York, W.W Norton Co., 1944, p 187-188</ref>

There seems to be adequate linguistic evidence to indicate that a proto Indo-European language could indeed have existed.  It is was not written, as many languages even today are not, there could have been no manuscript evidence for its existence.  Some creationist linguists have proposed that the language might well have been spoken by Jspheth or his early descendants, whom most Bible scholars believe populated Europe following the dispersion at the Biblical Tower of Babel.<ref>Lorella Rouster, The Hypothetical Indo-European Language, Creation Science & Humanities Quarterly, Vol. I. No. 3, Spring 1979, reprinted Winter 1983, p. 15</ref> If this scenario is correct, creationist Lorella Rouster has suggested that we might even call it the "Japhethitic" language, in analogy with "Semitic" and "Hamitic", other well-known language groups going back to about the same time.<ref>Lorella Rouster, The Hypothetical Indo-European Language, Creation Science & Humanities Quarterly, Vol. I. No. 3, Spring 1979, reprinted Winter 1983, p. 15.</ref>  There are presently nine language families that have been identified by linguists—Indo-European, Finno-Ugrian, Semitic, Hamitic, Indo-Chinese, Mayo-Polynesian, Turco-Tartar, Dravidian, and Bantu, with about a hundred language groups that have not yet been classified.  These groups provide adequate base for the dispersion of languages at Babel.<ref>Frederick Bodmer, The Loom of Language, New York, W.W Norton Co., 1944, p 187-188</ref>

Evolutionary linguists place the hypothetical Indo-European language at the time they believe was the last recession of the "Ice Age", at the dawn of European culture and history.  Language historian Albert Baugh wrote that "it is customary to place the end of their common existence somewhere between 3500 and 2000 B.C.  If this is true, the proto Indo-European language must have been spoken from around 5,000 to 3500 or 2000 B.C.  He says that the Indo-European proto tongue had already become divided and scattered before the dawn of recorded history.<ref>Baugh, p. 22</ref>

Evolutionary linguists place the hypothetical Indo-European language at the time they believe was the last recession of the "Ice Age", at the dawn of European culture and history.  Language historian Albert Baugh wrote that "it is customary to place the end of their common existence somewhere between 3500 and 2000 B.C.  If this is true, the proto Indo-European language must have been spoken from around 5,000 to 3500 or 2000 B.C.  He says that the Indo-European proto tongue had already become divided and scattered before the dawn of recorded history.<ref>Baugh, p. 22</ref>