Place-Name Toponym Okinawa as a Relict of Protolanguage

Mironova E.A.

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Place-Name Toponym Okinawa as a Relict of Protolanguage

Mironova E.A.

(Rostov-on-Don)

Article the author puts forward a hypothesis about the modern world toponyms containing the syllables of ancient protolanguage which existed about 40 000 years ago before the stratification of the whole language community. Examples of such syllables are given on the basis of the method described in the article. The linguistic, archeological and ethnographic facts are presented and this proves that syllables -*ok- and -*nav- are the relicts of the protolanguage.

Keywords

protolanguage, relict syllables, world toponymy, Indo-European languages, Nostratic languages, comparative linguistics, modern archeological evidence

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