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From: meus0001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (William E Meuse)
Subject: Correction of PBS Nova lies
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[ Article crossposted from sci.lang.translation ]
[ Author was William E Meuse ]
[ Posted on Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:24:58 GMT ]

  Recently pbs Nova broadcast a program on the original human language 
that was all lies. For example, they determined that the oldest words for 
Water going back 6000 years was "WOD" according to the American 
researchers and "WETI" according to the Soviets. Where do they get this 
crap from? Just to set the record straight, here are the oldest Human 
words for Water (WOHA) so you can judge for yourselves the quality of Nova.

Ancient Egyptian  -  MA      - 6,000 years ago
Sumerian          -  A
Middle Egyptian   -  MU 
Akkadian          -  MU
Elamite           -  ZUL
Hurrian           -  SHIYIE
Aramaic           -  MEYEEN
Canaanite         -  MIY
Luvian            -  WEEDANTS - no older than 4,000 years ago
Hittite, Thracian, Palaic - WATAR  - no older than 4,000 years ago.

By the way, if this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this, can 
someone crosspost it and let me know what is? I'm not that experienced on 
the Net, though I do know a lot about words for Water. 
  Thanks,   Ras William I
