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Linguistic similarities across Indo-European languages and distinct vocabulary for wheels, dairy, horses, and non-farming life are used to infer a common Proto-Indo-European pastoralist culture from the steppes.
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Linguistic similarities across Indo-European languages and distinct vocabulary for wheels, dairy, horses, and non-farming life are used to infer a common Proto-Indo-European pastoralist culture from the steppes.
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Jiang says Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed mother language behind European, Iranian, and Indian languages, supported by cognates such as father, mother, and two.
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"...So again, we know that this happened at first because of linguistic differences. So let's look at linguistic studies. When we look at different..."
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"Okay? And you can see how it spreads to other languages in the Proto -Indo -European family so that you go from dua to..."
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"Okay? That's why we're able to figure out that these are nomadic pastoralists. Therefore, they must be from the steppes. Okay? And then through..."
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"So for many hundreds of years, many people have speculated that maybe English, German, Greek, Latin, all came from the same language that's been..."
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"Then you look at the word mother, okay? Mother, matar, matara, madar, mat, okay? Also sounds very similar. So again, for hundreds of years,..."
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"...relations, capitalism, technology of communications, print and the fatality of human linguistic diversity. Okay? So what he means by that is that at Europe..."
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"...something real in it. Okay? And because of this, it's destroyed linguistic diversity. So if you were to go to France in the year..."
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"...summarize what we learned, okay? Shakespeare turns English into the world's linguistic internet, a platform which all cultures, ideas, and world views can meet..."
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"...so what Socrates did was he taught them basically mental or linguistic Kung Fu right to go beat up these commoners who dare to..."
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"...I want to tell you what we discovered in terms of linguistics."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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