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In particular, we follow the path of the idea of a sacred language that emerged in early Middle Eastern monotheism and ultimately became the normative, prescriptive language of a nation state.
parative linguistics and etymology. The rationale for his approach was made evident in the following statement: 'Mythology is only a dialect, an ancient form of language.' 18 For Müller, myths represented a disease of language, and this negative assessment of myth was carried forth by some late nineteenth-century anthropologists.
For almost two centuries, Indologists have debated the history of the Sanskrit mantra "OM" without reaching consensus as to its origins and rise as the "sacred syllable" of Vedic and Hindu traditions.
21 Ιουλ 2017 · First, sacred languages are mythologized, being connected to divine personages and events. Second, sacred languages are not used for ordinary communication - to chat around the dinner table, tease in the schoolyard, give orders in the factory, or bicker in the market.
21 Ιουλ 2017 · This chapter provides a highly simplified and schematic map of sacred languages, past and present, outlining their appearance in history and their current place in the linguasphere.
The absence of Jesus’s name can be considered in terms of the early medieval appreciation of Hebrew and sacred onomastics, that is, the tradition of Biblical name etymologies, as inherited from the Hebrew world of the Old Testament and most clearly transmitted to the Latin west by St. Jerome.
Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally. This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages.
