Guanche language derived from Dravida? The present article is intended to be read in connection with the one entitled: The Mysterious Origin of the Guanches, which also figures in the present Homepage. It is an extract of a vastly larger study of ours on this subject, which we are currently in the process of publishing. We would be delighted to discuss the matter with specialists or others who may be interested in it. According to the Ethnologue Record, the Guanche language is affiliated to the Afro- Asiatic family. The language is now extinct, but several words and expressions are known and extant. Some authorities affirm a connection with the Berber tongue, a position questioned by many linguists. Since the Guanches lived in almost perfect separation from Europe and Africa from very early epochs, their tongue provides a sort of “fossil” evidence for the very earliest form of the language spoken by the immigrating races that settled in Western Europe and northwestern Africa. Given the probable connection of the Guanches with the Celts and the Berbers, as well as other Aryan races, the problem of these Canarians assumes an enormous importance for the elucidation of human prehistory. Blond, blue- eyed natives are a rarity everywhere, so that the Guanches . This fact directly confirms our theory that the tall, blond, blue- eyed Aryans who later formed local races such as the Guanches, the Berbers, the Celts, and the Germans, indeed came in from the Indies, the true site of Atlantis. If this tentative discovery of ours is supported by further research and stands, a revolution will be on order for archaeology as a whole, and for linguistic archaeology in particular. Ethnologists generally admit that languages afford the strongest evidence of close affinity, not necessarily ethnic, between different civilizations. The a priori probabilities of random coincidences between several words in the two languages under comparison are essentially nil, as we demonstrated elsewhere. Of course, random coincidences can always occur, and the evidence has to be corroborated by other independent proofs, as is the case with our proposal. But the probability of detailed coincidences such as those of the word lists we present below being purely random are unthinkably small, and must be explained in some other way. A nation can adopt the language and even the religion of their conquerors. This was the case of the Guanches themselves, whose only language nowadays is Spanish, and whose official religion is Catholicism. But the coincidence proves that, at least, a close contact occurred in the past, and this has to be explained by viable theories. A mistake that that is often committed by amateur linguists is comparing just a very few instances of words between the two languages or, conversely, of making a more substantial listing of words of several different, obviously unrelated languages. The present article is intended to.Guanche, singular guanche (spanska: Guanches, guanche: guanchinet; Guan, 'person'; Chinet, 'Teneriffa') var ursprungsbefolkningen p. Guancherna levde egentligen uteslutande p Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchetos) were the Berber aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago around 1000 BC or perhaps earlier. While it is generally considered. The Guanche language, also known as Amazigh, was an extinct Berber language that was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 17th century or possibly later. It died out as the Guanche ethnic group was. A sociedade guanche era unha patriarcal e matrilineal. Estaba dividida en estratos definidos pola riqueza, especialmente avaliada en cabezas de gando. The latest Tweets from Luis Lazaro Guanche (@LuisLazaroGuanc). Random coincidences and borrowings can certainly occur, and the comparison has to be rather exhaustive in order to prove affiliation or former direct contact. Moreover, the respective etymologies must agree rather perfectly, and so must the corresponding pronunciations. Spelling is generally immaterial, particularly for illiterate tongues or for different alphabets. But the phonetic changes have to conform to certain fixed rules and to laws such as the ones known to linguists and philologists. In what follows, we compare the several extant Guanche words to their Dravidian correspondents of identical etymology. The list is extensive, but not exhaustive. However, it can be considered representative, as it comprises all words that we could obtain in this first draft. The Dravidian equivalents were obtained from the excellent A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary of T. Emeneau (Oxford, 1. We also attempt the interpretation of some Canarian toponyms and anthroponyms, a notoriously difficult task, given the obscurity of the two languages in question. But our results are rather encouraging and compelling, as can be seen by comparison. As we already said, the reader should pay attention to the phonetic correspondences only, disregarding the actual spelling, as a result of the Dravidian alphabet being different from the Roman one adopted for the Guanche language. Guanche. Guanche Meaning. Dravidian Etymology. Achaman. Heavenox- am- an (“the upper expanse”)achan. The Sanskrit word derives from the Dravidian radix par meaning “eye” or “seer”, just as does the radix kan. The radix par also implies the idea of “guardian” or “shepherd” (Drav. It also exists in Dravida under the form an, where both the final a and the initial k have been lost. BACK4) The Guanche Devil was an artificer of the sort of Hephaistos or Vulcanus. The god was believed to live inside the Teyde volcano, working at his infernal forges. This myth can be traced to India, with Vishvakarman being the archetype of all such smithing gods. Guayota is, as we comment in the main text, the alias of Maya, the Great Artificer who built Lanka, the archetype of sunken Paradises everywhere. BACK5) In the ancient world, the Supreme God was often equated to a bull, as the inseminator of the herd (the nation). Such was the case of Zeus, Dionysus, Poseidon, Baal, Osiris, and, in India, of Indra, Varuna, Shiva and many others. They were also identified to the sun and, more exactly, to the Fallen Sun. BACK6) The –k– is the usual Dravidian connective. Such is also apparently the case of the Guanche gu that corresponds to it here. BACK7) The change of p > c (or, rather, into k) is rather unexpected. However, it is frequent in Dravida, where the connective is indifferently either – pp – or –kk– or – tt - . BACKguanche toponyms and theonyms (tentative interpretation in dravida)Note: The meaning of some of the below Guanche toponyms is unknown or uncertain. The Dravidian etymologies proposed for them are tentative, and are offered as evidence of the explanatory power of that language. The notes appended below explain the more complex attributions. Guanche. Etymology or Place. Dravidian Etymology. Acentejo“Falling Waters”A- cem- tiyu (“place where waters fall”)Aguare“Paradise”(a valley)Akar- e (“Celestial Heights”)A. Accordingly, the Dravidian An- aka embodies the two ideas. An means “supreme”, “uppermost” and, by extension, “northernmost”. Aka (or akam) means “home”, “abode”, “heart’, “bosom”, “innermost”. In contrast to the other kingdoms, all coastal, Anaga extended into, and encompassed the very heart of Tenerife’s interior. BACK2) The capital of Taoro was named Arautava or Arautapola, nowadays corrupted to Orotava. In Dravida, the radix poly, polly, palli, etc. This corresponds to the Greek polis and the Sanskrit pura meaning the same. Such is also the idea expressed by the suffix of Arautapola, the capital city of Taoro. The word “royal” (arayata) has form such as arayan, aranta, arahaua and arachan. It is from such forms that the Sanskrit raja (“king”) and the Latin rex, regis (idem) ultimately derive. BACK3) Pliny, in his Natural History, affirms that the name of “Canaria” derives from the many dogs found on the island (Canis, in Latin). This is an exoterism, and the name indeed derives from that of Cham, the patriarch of the Chamites (or Ethiopians), the fallen ones. In reality, the word Cham means precisely the same as “Ethiopian” or “burnt- faces”. The Dravidian etyms of the word Cham are highly enlightening. The word means both “artificer”, “smith”, “architect”, as well as “fallen”, destroyed”, “dead”, “terminated”. Both in Dravida and in the Biblical tradition, the name of Cham is also interpreted as meaning “dog”, “doggish”. The suffix ari– of “Canary” means “island”, “cliff”, “rock”, in Dravida, and implies the idea of a sunken land whose peaks remained above the water. Hence, the Canaries are the Island of the Artificers who engendered Creation; the Fallen Angels or Nephelim, who “fell” (or died or were exterminated) at the end of their era, becoming damned dogs. In other words, the Guanches are “the People of Cham” (Guan- che or Cham- che), an etym (etymology)not unrelated to that of “Dog” and to that of the Canaries. Indeed, Chenok or Cham- ok (“Abode of the Chams”) means the same as “Canaries”, as seen in note 3) above. This name is a direct translation from the Sanskrit Sukhavati (or Shveta- dvipa, etc.), as we discuss elsewhere. The name of Chenech closely evokes the one of Chenoch, the first of all cities, founded by Cain (Gen. The name of Chenoch (or Henoch or Enoch) is sometimes rendered as “Initial”. But this is essentially the same as “Foundation”, one of the many names of Paradise (Sutala) in India. In Dravida, either ek or ok mean “abode”, “city”, “house”. BACK5) Gomeda (or Gomeda- dvipa, the “Island of the Fat Cattle”) is the name of one of the seven dvipas (Paradisial islands) of the Hindus. The name of Gomeda plays on that of Gomedha, “the sacrifice of the bull”. Gomeda is also the some as Gomata (“rich in cattle”) and Govardhana (idem), two other paradisial cities of the Hindus. As we explain elsewhere, Gomeda- dvipa, the sunken “Island of the Fat Cattle”, is a name of the Hindu Paradise that served as a model for ours, as well as for Punt and for Plato’s Atlantis. The Dravidian d, when cerebral, often changes into an r, as was the case here. BACK6) The precise etym of the word “Guanche” and its relationship with the other Chamitic (or “Solar”) races has been explained in detail in our article on the Guanches in this Homepage. The word is composed of the radices guan and che, which correspond to the Dravida ones cham and che. Cham means “golden”, “coppery”, ” red”, “solar”, “fiery”, “flaming”, and embodies the idea of “purified by fire”, as in the name of the Ethiopians. The expression “Purified by Fire” is a metaphor for “gold” and for the Golden Races of Cham in India. It has also to do with the Cathars (or “Pures”) as we explain elsewhere. As we said in note 3 above, the name of “Cham” also means “dog” and, more exactly the wild red dog of the Indies, the Cuon alpinus.
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