Edo Nyland
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Introduction
Edo Nyland was born in the Netherlands in 1927. After a stint in the military in the late 1940s, he moved to Canada in 1952, and got a BSF in Forestry. The next several years were spent logging, until at age 55 he retired.
In 1984, Nyland heard a talk on Odysseus, in which the speaker claimed that there were clues in Homer's epic that suggested that Odysseus visited Ireland and Scotland. Nyland, ever curious and investigative, set out to see if he could prove this theory. Sure enough, one of the names given by Homer for a tribe of people living around a harbor where disaster struck Odysseus (when thousands of giant cannibals pelted his ships with rocks--interestingly enough, a common practice in both Ireland and Scotland to this day), the Laistrygonians, turned out to provide the proof Nyland was looking for.
He broke it down into its components, lai-istri-goni-an (never mind that he included an English adjectival ending on the end in his analysis of a Homeric Greek word--to make pointless nitpicks like this obscures the genius of Nyland's work), and discovered, to his shock, that the Basque words which fit this pattern were laino istripu gonbidatu aniztasun, which mean "fog invites many accidents" (assuming you ignore morphology and syntax and simply focus on the lexical components). Nyland realized this could only be referring to one place: Killary Harbor in Northern Conamara, Ireland. As Nyland says, he realized his "linguistic adventure was off to a good start"!
Historical Lienguistics
Nyland realized that for thousands of years, professional linguists have been creating languages in secret and injecting them into society, where they become spoken. He also recognized that the only original language, from which all the others have been secretly derived, is Basque. Unfortunately, students in colleges and universities studying to be linguists are brainwashed into accepting only what their training tells them is the truth, simply because it's backed by massive amounts of confirming evidence amassed over several millennia of scholarly research. If a new theory comes along which is fundamentally against their training, these linguists dismiss it without even considering the possibility that it's not the result of the mad ravings of a senile old loon who knows nothing about linguistics and has way too much free time.
Nyland's theories have therefore been cruely repressed and ignored without foundation. His theories threaten to destroy the Stammbaum (or the Family Tree Model) theory of linguistics, and therefore, the thick-headed old linguists refuse to listen to someone who is not one of their own elite club, and cling foolishly to the status quo, correct though it may be. As Nyland puts it, these old scholars "are disdainful of anybody embarking upon a relentless search for academic truth."
Surpressing the truth! They should call it lienguistics!
Basque: The Origin of All Languages?
Nyland has discovered something truly remarkable. All 6000+ languages on earth are simply languages invented by Benedictine monks, working closely with Ligurian grammarians. At one time, there was only one language spoken over the whole world, Saharan, which is now known as Basque. The Benedictine monks interpreted Genesis 11:7, "Come let us go down, and there confuse their language so they may no longer understand one another's speech," literally, according to Nyland, and viewed it as a command from God. Therefore, they went about brilliantly constructing thousands upon thousands of languages over the course of several hundred years. Little wonder Nyland is impressed with their talent and abilities: that means that several thousand men created billions upon billions upon billions of words over the course of several hundred years!
Nyland's explanation for how the monks created words is, in his own words: "The method of new word construction used by them was generally done with the vowel-interlocking (Ogam) formula, which utilized the first three letters (VCV) of each Saharan word in the description. The VCV's which were then agglutinated, always had to have their vowels interlocked. To make the product pronounceable, several vowels were removed and also one or more h's, if present. The system is best illustrated with a couple of simple examples: take the word "begin", using the description: "Someone start the action", which makes good sense. Where vowels had been removed from the word, I place a dot, which needs to be replaced by the missing vowel"
Unfortunately, this means that there could be up to dozens and dozens of Basque words for any given syllable in a modern word. In a longer word, there could be many hundreds of possible analyses of the single word in terms of Basque. It's truly a testament to Nyland's skill and genius that he has nonetheless managed to find the correct origin of every word he's investigated.
Examples
Now I will present some of the examples which Nyland provides, which should be sufficient to prove his theory beyond a shadow of a doubt, no matter what the status-quo-loving, brainwashed linguists want to believe.
begin
.be-egi-in.
ibe - egi - ino
ibeni - egindura - inor
"to start" - "the action" - "someone"
"Someone start the action."
ejaculate
eja - aku - ule - ete
eia - akuilatu - uletsu - etendura
"to come on, keep on" - "to stimulate" - "hairy" - "crack"
"Keep on stimulating the hairy crack."
Sanskrit pitar, "father"
pi-ita-ar.
pi - ita - ara
pindartu - itaun egin - arau
"to get angry" - "to demand" - "descipline"
"When angered he demands discipline"
Analysis
The examples virtually speak for themselves. The only possible complaint I can envision someone bringing up is why in "begin," Nyland requires a vowel before be- (i.e., .be), and in "pitar," he requires no such vowel. However, this can be explained in that the Benedictine monks occasionally made mistakes in their derivations, and Nyland has been miraculously able to anticipate these mistakes.
