Our Common Ancestral Languages and Letters

What Tribalists and Hatemongers Do Not Understand!

Tribalism ignores the fact that we all share ancestors! Have you ever wondered how letters and written languages evolved over time? Are you aware how close some words are to each other across the world and in different languages?

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This is an example of how letters Alpha (Greek), A (English), Aleph (in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) share the same roots although from different lineages (Indo-European vs. Semitic/Canaanite):

This is a chart of the semitic roots of alphabet letters:

Although evolved somewhat differently than semitic languages, Indo-European languages like Greek use written letters and alphabet that share semitic roots:

And roots of some common words like number “two:”

Other numbers sound somewhat similar across the Indo-European languages:

Other than numbers, many words share similar roots, like words wet, water, wash, vitreous, vodka, etc.:

I posted the following interesting video on my website a few years ago. It compares 70 words in selected Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) reconstrunctions. Languages featured include - Hittite (Anatolian), Baltic (Old Prussian and Lithuanian), Slavic (Old Church Slavonic), Iranian (Avestan), Indo-Aryan (Vedic Sanskrit), Armenian, Romance (Latin), Tocharian (Tocharian A and B), Germanic (Gothic, Old Norse), Hellenic (Ancient Greek), Celtic (Old Irish and Welsh), Albanian:

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