ARABIC AS MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES (REVEALLED!!!) MINANNUR REHMAN

The issue that there is a mother for all the 6000 known human languages is no doubt and no one will question this anymore. But, which language is the mother; is the billion dollar question?

There is overwhelming evidence that languages change over time and they do not become more organized and complex but less so over time in their structure, even while the vocabulary grows. In other words they devolve and do not evolve even though terminology is less than precise in literature. If this premise be correct then the most organized and complex language is the mother of all and that was the argument of the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani for Arabic. Also remember that it is a scientific principle that present is the mirror of the past. So, by learning about present we can extrapolate to the past. If languages are devolving and not truly evolving then birth of language cannot be completely explained by Darwinian evolution, based on small incremental improvements, and one has to invoke revelation. This also makes language a proof of Guided Evolution against Blind Evolution. Read your Darwin!

SIR CHARLES DARWIN suggested a testable hypothesis for his grand theory: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” If we consider human language and human mind as an organ, then here lies a means to test the details of theory of evolution. Darwin is right in as much as all life forms on earth have a common ancestry, but, the evolution of life forms, is guided by a Transcendent Intelligence and is not blind and completely random and study of languages.

This popular Google-knoll was first written in 2010. It is a collection of books, articles and a documentary. 
MINANUR REHMAN

Messiah of the age and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, in the year 1895, wrote a book named Minanur Rehman, wherein he claimed that Arabic is the first language given by God to man and that all other languages are derived from it. He based this claim on the teachings of the Holy Quran and elucidated this proposition in the light of several verses of the Holy Quran. He is also called Promised Messiah and he has even foretold that in course of time Arabic will be found to be the mother of all the world languages. He wrote, in his book Minanur Rehman:

“All praise is due to Allah, the Sustainer, and the Beneficent. To Him belong all Excellence, Grace and Goodness. He created man and taught him a plain language. And out of one language He created various languages in different countries just as He created various colors (of mankind); out of one color. And He made Arabic the mother of all languages. He made it the like of the sun in brightness and luster.”

The claims made were bold and specific. At a time when these claims were made; the only established facts in the field of linguistics were that the Indo-European languages are related and possibly coming from a prototype language. The reality of other languages could have turned out to be remarkably different from what was suggested by Promised Messiah. The aborigines of Australia had migrated there 40,000 years ago; the Native Americans were separated from the main body of humanity for 12000-25000 years. The continent of Africa was divided into small hostile tribes; if the language had blindly evolved;  it would have been very possible that  different languages had evolved in different tribes and groups of languages could have different mother language. But this was not to be! To read the English translations of the book log on to Alislam.

THE BEGINNING OF LANGUAGE: THE INCREMENTAL REVELATION THEORY

BY SYED SAJID AHMAD AND ZIA H SHAH MD

There are several existing theories about the beginning of language. These hardly explain any of the existing data and are merely speculative. Here the authors have proposed that the language developed by a process of incremental revelation of needed root words. An analogy is created between SETI and the complexity and organization of the root system of Semitic languages, making a case for pre-cognition in the development of languages. For the rest of the story log on to Alislam.

THE JOURNEY OF MAN: A GENETIC ODESSY

BY SPENCER WELLS

The Holy Quran links the study of languages with the study of races. It says, “And among His Signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. In that surely are Signs for those who possess knowledge.” (Al Quran 30:23) Geneticist Spencer Wells spends his life traveling the globe taking blood samples from men and women in order to unravel the secrets of the human story: Where did humans come from? How did they spread over the globe? How did different races evolve? In this documentary, Wells answers those questions, demonstrating the shared human heritage, the universal brotherhood, for the first time using the latest discoveries of human genetics. The migration also sheds light on history of different languages, as to how they may have metamorphosed from a mother tongue. The documentary is available on YouTube:

A REVEALED MOTHER TONGUE: EVIDENCE FOR GUIDED EVOLUTION

BY ZIA H SHAH

Drawing inspiration from the revealed knowledge of the Holy Quran and other revelations, the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, may peace be on him, wrote in his book Minanur Rehman, in 1895:

“Allah created man and taught him a plain language. And out of one language He created various languages in different countries just as He created various colors (of mankind); out of one color. And He made Arabic the mother of all languages. He made it the like of the sun in brightness and luster.”

The present day linguists in keeping with the dictates of Darwinism believe that all languages have come to being by a process of blind evolution over time. Yet we see no evidence for evolution in the 5000 extant languages. Examples of devolution of languages into less organized languages abound but evolution is nowhere to be seen.

This tree suggests how all the Indo-European languages are derived from one proto-type language.

Languages are not evolving from simple to complex. According to the famous linguist Merritt Ruhlen, “All extant human languages are today considered of equal ‘complexity’ by virtually all linguists.” Guy Deutscher writes, “Small tribes with stone-age technology speak languages with structures that sometimes make Latin and Greek seem like child’s play.”

I have collated the evidence of one mother tongue of all languages and how the present is the key to the past, in study of languages. Logon to Alislam. For more info.

MIRACLE AND PROPHECY OF THE HOLY QURAN

When the Holy Quran opines on a subject and we understand it correctly, we find it to be very profound and accurate. For example review this verse of the Holy Quran about languages and ethnic grouping and how the scripture links them by mentioning them together:

“And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. In that surely are Signs for those who possess knowledge.” (Al Quran 30:23)

The link between the languages and ethnicity may seem somewhat obvious today to the readers; but it was not always the case and what are some of the Signs that this verse alludes to. To make my point let me now quote from Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza write in their book The Great Human Diasporas – The History Of Diversity And Evolution , under a heading, Darwin’s Prophecy: “At a certain point I realized with a mixture of emotion, pleasure, and some embarrassment that our observations on the strong similarity between the genetic tree and the linguistic one had been presaged by Charles Darwin. Here is a quotation from The Origin of Species (1859): ‘If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world, and if all extinct languages and all intermediate and slowly changing dialects, were to be included, such an arrangement would be the only possible one.’ I was reminded of this prophecy by Franco Scudo, an historian of evolution; I was embarrassed because it had completely slipped my mind.”

If this can be considered to be Darwin’s Prophecy, then certainly the Holy Quran revealed 1300 years before Darwin has a better claim to this. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza next go on to explain the reasons for the close link between the study of the languages and tribes and ethnicity:

“Why should there be a similarity between linguistic evolution and genetic evolution? The explanation is simple. During modern humanity’s expansion, breakaway groups settled in new locations and occupied new continents; from these, other groups broke away and traveled to more distant regions. These schisms and shifts took humanity to very remote areas where contact with the original areas and peoples became difficult or impossible. The isolation of numerous groups had two inevitable consequences: the formation of genetic differences and the formation of linguistic differences. Both take their own path and have their own rules, but the sequence of divisions that caused diversification is common to both. Their history, whether reconstructed using language or genes, is that of their migrations and fissions and is therefore inevitably the same.” Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza in their book also give a beautiful picture of proposed tree demonstrating how the languages along with the respective ethnicities, may have diversified from their common origin:

 The authors describe the picture as, “The relationship between the genetic tree of the world’s major populations and linguistic families.” It was very profound and prophetic that the Holy Quran linked the study of languages and ethnicity 14 centuries before it became obvious to the modern linguist and also mentioned in this verse that there are several Signs of Allah in the study of these subjects and their interrelation. ARABIC THE MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES

By Zia H Shah MD

It was originally published in Muslim Sunrise in 2009. For some of the pictures and references go to the Muslim Sunrise.

This article is is being partially reproduced here:

“It is not that I doubt that language evolved only once,” Steven Pinker a famous linguistic confesses, “one of the assumptions behind the search for the ultimate mother tongue.” [1] A gradual consensus seems to building among the linguists that all languages have come from one source. If the 5000 extant languages of the world were coming from divergent sources they would show varied degree of organization and complexity. But that does not seem to be the case. According to the famous linguist Merritt Ruhlen, “All extant human languages are today considered of equal ‘complexity’ by virtually all linguists.” [2] Guy Deutscher writes, “Small tribes with stone-age technology speak languages with structures that sometimes make Latin and Greek seem like child’s play.” [3]

Edward Sapir, has been described by Encyclopedia Britannica as, “One of the foremost American linguists and anthropologists of his time, most widely known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages.” [4] According to him:

“There is no more striking general fact about language than its universality. One may argue as to whether a particular tribe engages in activities that are worthy of the name of religion or of art, but we know of no people that is not possessed of a fully developed language. The lowliest South African Bushman speaks in the forms of a rich symbolic system that is in essence perfectly comparable to the speech of the cultivated Frenchman. …

Many primitive languages have a formal richness, a latent luxuriance of expression that eclipses anything known to the languages of modern civilization. Even in the mere matter of the inventory of speech the layman must be prepared for strange surprises. Popular statements as to the extreme poverty of expression to which primitive lan­guages are doomed are simply myths.”[5]

Mario Pei was an Italian-born American linguist whose many works helped to provide the general public with a popular understanding of linguistics and philology. Pei immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was seven years old. By the time he was out of high school he knew not only English and his native Italian but also Latin, Greek, and French. Over the years he became fluent in five languages, capable of speaking some 30 others, and acquainted with the structure of at least 100 spoken languages. He wrote:

“Is there a possibility that our present classification of languages will be improved? More light is being shed upon language affiliations as more material is discovered. It is even possible that one day dream of some linguists will come true, and all languages be proved to have a common origin. Linguists, however, are hard headed scientists, not impractical theorists. Before, they will accept a hypothesis, however attractive, the proof must be cogent beyond a shadow of doubt.” [6]

SIR WILLIAM JONES (1746-1794)

Sir William Jones was an English linguist/philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. He was also the founder of the Asiatic Society. He can be aptly described as the father of modern linguistics. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, “In his 1786 presidential discourse to the Asiatic Society, he postulated the common ancestry of Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek, his findings providing the impetus for the development of comparative linguistics in the early 19th century.” [7]

Of all his discoveries, Jones is best known today for making and propagating the observation that Sanskrit bore a certain resemblance to classical Greek and Latin. He suggested that all three languages had a common root, and that indeed they may all be further related, in turn, to Gothic and the Celtic languages, as well as to Persian. This common source came to be known as Proto-Indo-European.

All Indo-European languages are believed to be derived from Proto Indo-European language

Merritt Ruhlen writes in his book

the origin of language: tracing the evolution of the mother tongue:

“We would not be giving Jones his due credit, however, if we were merely to mention that he noted similarities among Indo-European languages. His crowning achievement was not just that he saw these similarities, but that he

explained them. And the evolutionary explanation he gave-descent with mod­ification from a common ancestor-was the one Darwin would give 72 years later for biology (with the addition of natural selection, which does not apply in language).”

Here is a short list of words common to most Indo-European languages, demonstrating the amazing overlap in the basic vocabulary of these languages:

Language	father	mother	brother	Two	three	four	Horse
Old English	fæder	modor	broðor	Twa	thrie	feowre	Eoh
Latin	pater	mater	frater	duos	tres	quattuor	Equus
Old Irish	athair	mathair	brathir	Do	tri	ceathair	Ech
Greek	pater	meter	phrater 1	duos	tri	tetra	Hippos
Sanskrit	pitar	matar	bhratar	Dva	trayas	chatvari	Asva
Avestan	pitar	matar	bratar	Dwa	trayo	chatvaro	Aspa
Russian	otech	matka	brat	Dva	tri	chetyre	Loshaa
Armenian	hayr			Erku	erek’	cork’
Tocharian B	pacer	macer	procer	Wi	trai	s’twer	Yakwe
Proto-Indo-European	*pəter	*mater	*bhrater	*duwos	*treyes	*kwetores	*ek’wos

Guy Deutscher in his book

the Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention, published in 2005, also draws a similar family tree of the Indo-European languages on page 57 to show how all the Indo European languages are related and are derived from a Proto-Indo-European language.

In the year 1895, promised Messiah ^as wrote a book Minanur Rehman and gave a dramatic turn to the work of Sir William Jones in light of the verses of the Holy Quran.

PROMISED MESSIAH (1836-1908)

And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. In that surely are Signs for those who possess knowledge. (Al Quran 30:23)This verse of the Holy Quran was revealed in a century when knowledge was scant and even mention of comparative linguistics was beyond the contemporary human paradigms. To a fair minded person the mere presence of the verse in a book from the seventh century should be thought provoking. This circumstance alone is sufficient to give the Quran an urgent claim on our attention. This verse, as regards the languages apparently lay dormant for more than a millennium, until the time of renaissance of Islam, in recent times.Messiah of this age and the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, in the year 1895, wrote a book named Minanur Rehman, wherein he claimed that Arabic is the first language given by God to man and that all other languages are derived from it. He based this claim on the teachings of the Holy Quran and elucidated this proposition in the light of several verses of the Holy Quran. He even foretold that in course of time Arabic will be found to be the mother of all the world languages. [8] He wrote, in his book Minanur Rehman:”All praise is due to Allah, the Sustainer, the Beneficent. To Him belong all Excellence, Grace and Goodness. He created man and taught him a plain language. And out of one language He created various languages in different countries just as He created various colors (of mankind); out of one color. And He made Arabic the mother of all languages. He made it the like of the sun in brightness and luster.” [9]The claims made were bold and specific. At a time when these claims were made the only established facts in the field of linguistics were that the Indo-European languages are related and possibly coming from a prototype language. The reality of other languages could have turned out to be remarkably different from what was suggested by Promised Messiah. The aborigines of Australia had migrated there 40,000 years ago; the Native Americans were separated from the main body of humanity for 12000-25000 years. The continent of Africa was divided into small hostile tribes; if the language had blindly evolved it would have been very possible that totally different languages had evolved in different tribes and groups of languages could have different mother language.Granted the languages borrow words from each other but that applies to words of secondary importance. The primary words are those without which no language can be functional. So they cannot be borrowed from other languages. Simple pronouns like ‘me’ and ‘you;’ and the words that are often the first words uttered by the babies, calling their parents can not be considered to be borrowed from other languages. If different languages had descended from different sources, there was no rhyme or reason for languages to have even a single common ‘primary word.’ Since his writing of Minanur Rehman there is growing evidence that all languages have been derived from one mother tongue.

THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

BASIC VOCABULARY OF 25 EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
Language	One	Two	Three	Head	Eye	Ear	Nose	Mouth	Tooth
Breton	unan, eun	Dau	tri	penn	Lagad	skuarn	fri	genu, bek	Dant
Irish	aon	Dau	tri	ceann	Süil	au, clüas	srön	bēal	fiacal
Welsh	unan, eun	Do	tri	penn	Ligad	klust	truyn	geneu	Dant
Danish	en	To	tre	hoved	Öje	öre	naese	mund	Tand
Swedish	en	To	tre	huvud	Öga	öra	näsa	mund	Tand
Dutch	e:n	tve:	dri:	ho:ft	o:x	o:r	no:s	mont	Tant
English	wən	Tuw	θrij	hɛd	Aj	ijr	nowz	mawθ	Tuwθ
German	ajns	Tsvai	draj	kopf	augə	o:r	na:ze	munt	tsa:n
French	â€, yn	Dø	trwa	tɛ:t	cej, jф	orɛ:j	ne	bu:š	Da
Italian	uno,una	Due	tre	Tɛsta	Okkjo	orekkjo	naso	bɔkka	dente
Spanish	un, una	Dos	tres	kabesa	Oxo	orexa	naso	boka	diente
Rumanian	un, o	doj, dowə

They all have common origin.