List of Linguistic Pseudoscientific theories

Source: Wikipedia, Quora, Duolingo

## Language Groups

### Ural-Altaic

Uralic (Hungarian, Finnish...), Turkic (Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek...), Mongolic (Mongol, Kalymk...), Koreanic (Korean...), Japonic (Japanese...), Tungusic, Yukaghir, Ainu languages are related eachother.

### Dené–Caucasian

Na-Dené (Navajo...), North Caucasian (Chechen, Abkhaz...), Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin, Burmese, Cantonese...), Vasconian (Basque...), Burushaski, Yeniseian, Tyrsenian (Etruscan...), Sumerian, Almosan languages are related eachother.

### Nostratic

Indo-European (English, Italian, Persian...), Afro-Asiatic (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic...), Dravidian (Tamil, Telugu...), Uralic (Hungarian, Finnish..), Altaic (Turkish, Mongolian...), Japonic (Japanese...), Koreanic (Korean...), Karvelian (Georgian...), Eskimo–Aleut (Greenlandic...), Elamite, Sumerian, Nivkh, Yukaghir, Chukotko-Kamchatkan are related eachother.

### Borean

Indo-European (Icelandic, Belarusian, Maldivian...), Uralic (Khanty, Estonian...), Altaic (Qashqai, Kalmyk...), Paleosiberian (Inuktitut, Kamchatkan...), Afroasiatic (Hausa, Syriac...), Dravidian (Tamil, Telugu...), Kartvelian (Georgian...), Dené–Caucasian (Circassian, Burmese...), Austric (Thai, Malagasy, Maori...), Yukaghir, Sumer-Elamite are related eachother.

### Atlantic-Semitic

Afro-Asiatic (Hausa, Somali, Shilha...) languages influenced Vasconic (Basque), Insular Celtic (Breton, Manx...) and Germanic (English, Danish...) languages.

### Italo-Celtic

Italic (Italian, Spanish, Oscan, Venetic...), Celtic (Irish, Welsh...), Albanian, Ancient Ligurian, Lisutanian, Illyrian are related eachother. Anyway, most of them are already Indo-European languages.

### Japhetic

The name comes from Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. Kartvelian (Georgian...) and Semitic (Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew...) are related eachother. Japhetic languages had existed across Europe before the advent of the Indo-European language.

## Languages

### Slavic languages are related to Sumerian and Tamil

Czech language had some similar words with Tamil language. No reasons given for Sumerian connection.

### Sumerian is related with Ural-Altaic

In 1874, French Orientalist **Francois Lenormant** analyzed Turkic and Sumerian mythology by comparing Sumerian myths with Central Asian magic and cultural similarities, in addition to comparing Sumerian language with Ural-Altaic languages. He published his book called **La magie chez les chaldeens et les origines accadiennes** concluding Sumerian to be Turanian/Turkic.

### German and English are not related

*Girl* is *Mädchen* in German. So, English and German are not related eachother.

### Yiddish is Slavic and it's spoken by Turkic descendants

A theory called **Khazar Myth** promotes that Yiddish is derived from Knaanic, an extinct West Slavic Jewish language despite it's a Germanic language.

### Khmer is Indo-European

The Khmer words for mother and mother are pronounced "*ma-daay"* and *"pa\_daay"*.

### Afrikaans and Amerikaans are related to Asiaans language

Afrikaans (Germanic language spoke in South Africa derived from Dutch) and Amerikaans (fictional language possibly spoke in Suriname) are related to another fictional language called Asiaans (Dutch Asian), possibly spoke in Indonesia now.

### Brits speak an American language

Most of native English speakers live in the United States, thus it's an American language. Therefore British people (as well Canadians, Australians, Irish and New Zealanders) speak an **American language** and not an Indo-European language.

### Japanese is half Ural-Altaic and half Malayo-Polinesian

Japanese is sometimes included into Ural-Altaic group and sometimes into Austric/Austronesian (Malayo-Polinesian). It's probably a hybrid language.

## Superiority of a language

### Sun Language

This hypothesis was a theory developed in Turkey in the 1930s that proposed that all human languages are descendants of one proto-Turkic primal language. According to the theory, the Central Asian worshippers, who wanted to salute the omnipotence of the sun and its life-giving qualities, had done so by transforming their meaningless blabbering into a coherent set of ritual utterings, and language was born, hence the name.

### Dacian Protochronism

This theory claims that the Dacian language was the origin of Latin and all other languages, including Hindi and Babylonian. A romanian linguist called this theory as "the barren and paranoid nationalism".

### Albanian is the mother of all Indo-European languages

Someone who want to give some global importance to the Albanian language. There is no evidence to prove this theory.

### Ukrainian is the root of all languages in Europe

Ukraine is where most people began a migration path to Europe. It's no wonder as Ukrainian has so many words that are borrowed from Romance and Germanic languages.

## Denial of existence

### Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are not real

They are "ancient languages", hence they're not real.

### Indo-European was created during Hindu immigration into England

Not true, earliest Indo-European studies are from 16th century.

### Romanian was created by the Habsburgs

**Romanian** language was deliberately created by the Habsburg dynasty to help tear Romanians away from alliance with Russia (before then, they spoke a language that was a dialect of Serbian). Thus separating geographically Serbians with Russians.

### Swedish comes from Atlantis

Between 1679 and 1702, Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck dedicated himself to contributions in historical-linguistics patriotism, writing a 3,000-page treatise in four volumes called Atlantica where he purported to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

## Meaningless adjectives

### Nogai is a homophobic language

The meaning of **Nogai** language comes from **Nogai Khan** (de facto ruler of the Golden Horde and a great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan), not because the language is "homophobic".

### Aromanian isn't attracted to Romanian

**Aromanians** aren't just a people and a language, but it's also a Romantic orientation: Aromanians are also those who are attracted to everyone but Romanians.

## Other

### Adam and Eve spoke Irish and Scottish Gaelic

One book that promoted this theory was **Adhamh agus Eubh, no Craobh Sheanachais nan Gàël**. Evil forces could not speak Irish, that it was the lingua franca of heaven preferred by God, and that it was more pure because it predated other languages and thus could not have borrowed from them in any way.

### Meowth's mother tongue

Meowth is the first talking Pokémon in the anime but he doesn't speak Japanese or English. His mother tongue is supposed to be Proto-Iranian because he evolves into Persian.