Ancient rulers conducted cruel experiments to find a language-the mother of all languages

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In the world there are legends about those who are trying to figure out what was the first language, the progenitor of all the other languages ​​of the world - it is believed that the language each person knows from birth, and do not have to teach him.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the first language experiments conducted by the Egyptians. They were proud of the fact that they are one of the oldest civilizations on the planet, and Pharaoh Psamtik I, who ruled from 664 till 610 BC. e., I decided to confirm this. In fact, the Egyptians had only one rival - the Phrygians.



Pharaoh believed that this language may prove what the people came first: whose language would be more natural, and belongs to the birthright. And Pharaoh oblivious to cruelty, he conducted an experiment: selected two young children have mothers prostolyudinok. Children are given the shepherd and told him on pain of death not to talk with the children when they do not pronounce a single word, and ensure that they are no different from anyone not a word was heard.

Everything that had to do the shepherd - is to feed the children and little care for them. When it does not need the shepherd had to be outside the house where the children lived - until the time when children were to start talking. Shepherd had to catch that moment and tell what words they spoke.

When the children were two years, the shepherd told Pharaoh that they uttered their first word - «becos», which means "bread." It was the Phrygian word, and the Egyptians abandoned claims to the world's oldest race, as received, seemingly irrefutable evidence.



The Egyptians were the first but not the last - such experiments were carried out in the history of the times. The last of the true seeker of the language was King of Scotland, James IV: in 1499, the year he sent a few kids on an island, where they looked after deaf for a woman.

Since the impact on the children, no one could, all hoped that they speak a first language - the children allegedly began to speak in Hebrew. However, scientists are not sure of the reliability of the results of the doubts expressed by such writers as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Scott.

via factroom.ru

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