THE INDO-EUROPEAN BIG BANG

JOSEPH GREENBERG CONGRATULATES XAVIER ROUARD

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU’s critical contribution

XAVIER ROUARD — TEN REASONS WHY CENTRAL ASIA HAD TO BE THE PIE ORIGINAL HOMELAND — MARCH 2024 — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378846126_Ten_reasons_why_Central_Asia_had_to_be_the_PIE_original_homeland

A French version exists on the same site. “Dix raisons pour lesquelles l’Asie Centrale devait être le foyer originel des Indo-Européens, Gaulois et peuples des Balkans,” March 2024, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379227051_Dix_raisons_pour_lesquelles_l'Asie_Centrale_devait_etre_le_foyer_originel_des_Indo-Europeens_Gaulois_et_peuples_des_Balkans. Those who do not feel at ease can get to the French version. I did not read the French version, except for the title and a few passages. But the title surprised me because “had to be” says clearly that the proposed solution is the only possible solution and it should have given in French “se doit d’être,” or “ne peut qu’être.” But the author used the “had to be” formula that implies an absolute obligation or necessity, in this case scientific. That is slightly excessive. But that is a detail after all, and that might be a mistake from the translating machine, or the AI used to produce the translation. But it is regrettable.

The first point will be to say that all the examples of WORDS and ONLY WORDS concerned here and put forward by Rouard prove what Greenberg said and published that all human languages have only one source in Black Africa where and when they evolved along with Homo Sapiens who emerged thanks to this evolution there from Homo Erectus or Homo Ergaster. I will be slightly more open and I might say from the two or three languages Homo Sapiens spoke in Black Africa around 300,000 BCE with contacts and exchanges between the diverse communities, enabling them to exchange words which explains why we can only track one root for a certain number of words that can be considered as very old, if not original, and corresponding to items that were essential for human survival, like water, fire, and some parts of the body, but also some natural dangers…