Vedic Theory of the Origin of Speech

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About the Book The present work makes a humble reappraisal of the observations of Vedic seers on the origin and evolution of first speech on this planet. Findings here set aside conventional notion regarding the origin of speech and tries to present the actual picture behind the caption "Divine Origin of Speech. This work also attempts to discover the sequence of origin of various phonemic sounds. The first ever origin of action sounds and their development into attributives and final culmination into agent sounds. It also underlies those rules that determine the origin of other languages of Indo- European stock from their original source directly or indirectly. The present work also takes into account various phonetic theories evolved by various linguists from time to time in the light of new findings of the present study.

About the Authors Born in 1937 in Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. Slovenian is his mother tongue.

His primary education was in Slovenian; all of the secondary and university education, he received in Toronto, Canada. In 1961, he did his Bachelor degree in Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Toronto. In 1963, he became a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and is still a member. He managed many projects during his professional career in the sphere of Chemical Engineering and also outside the field of Chemistry. During his high school days he had an opportunity, at St. Michaels College School, to study Latin, Greek, French and German. He also took some lessons in Russian After retirement from Kodak as a Technical Consultant, he began studying Sanskrit at the Hindu Institute of Learning Toronto Canada. His special Interests are: Historical linguistics and the correlation with Genetics, Sanskrit and Indian history. He is the Member of the Society for Slovene Studies.

He has done lot of research work in the historical linguistics particularly dealing with the origin and affinity of Slave languages. He has been keen participant of International seminars. workshops and conferences on linguistics, history and archacology. He has to his credit no. of research papers. published and presented to various International conferences

DR. RAVI PRAKASH ARYA A world renowned Vedic Scholar. Philologist, and Historian. A prolific speaker and writer who has written on wide variety of subjects and who has travelled widely to deliver popular and academic talks on various topics of Vedas, Indian History, Linguistics. Philosophy, Culture and Scientific Indian heritage. Dr. Ravi Prakash doing a pioneering work for preserving and propagating the universal and scientific Vedic heritage of India under the auspices of 'Indian Foundation for Vedic science'. He has so far produced around 70 research papers and 30 books running into 40 volumes on the various aspects of Vedas, Indian History and Culture. He is also the editor of reputed quarterly Research Journal Vedic Science and World Vedic Calendar circulated around 30 countries of the world.

Preface Linguistics, the scientific study of language, can reach more deeply into the human past than the most ancient written records. It compares related languages to reconstruct their immediate progenitors and eventually their ultimate ancestor, or proto-language. The proto-language in turn illuminates the lives of its speakers and locates them in time and place.

Introduction When we take up the study of language, the first and foremost question arises as to how when and where the language originated. More the linguists troubled their head in this direction, less they achieved success. So far it has remained an unsolved conundrum. The more it was solved, the more it became complex. Now many linguistic societies in the world have banned to raise this question again on the forum. Vedic (Indo-European) family of languages being the ancient most of all the families of languages of the world. If we are able to search the root of Indo-European Languages, the problem of the origin and evolution of almost all the languages of the world will be solved. Among the hosts of theories put forwarded on the origin of speech, one is regarding the divine origin of speech. So long it has been contended by almost all the scholars both at home and abroad that the Vedas are the propounder of this theory.

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