During the 3rd millennium bc, an intimate cultural symbiosis developed between the sumerians and the semiticspeaking akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism. It could explain some of the textbooks, however, now that i think about it. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. If youre reading this, you probably already have some reason to study the languages. Why did the aliens in the movie the fourth kind speak in. Sumeriangrammarlesson two possessives wikibooks, open. Mack 19292004 have investigated people who believed they were abducted by extraterrestrial lifeforms. Classical languages, earliest civilizations, the steppe. Sumerians left mesopotamia in 2348 bc when there was a great flood. Nov 21, 2019 sumerians left mesopotamia in 2348 bc when there was a great flood.
Although there are some theories that sumerian is a member of the uralic languages like hungarian and finnish, or other language families, this is a. The origins of sumerian civilization in mesopotamia are still debated today, but archaeological evidence indicates that they established roughly a dozen citystates by the fourth millennium b. However most of these translations are in serious conflict with the sumerian grammar. The sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in nippur. Furthermore, this book also deals with the history of the sumerian earlier theories, especially concerning the verbal system, the most difficult chapter of sumerian grammar, are discussed. The sumerian people spoke the language of ancient sumer. For example, the twentyseventh book of the old testament is daniel, which is regarded by many biblical scholars as. Samuel noah kramer translated a text that he described as a sumerian job text starting on page 127 of his book the sumerians, their history, culture, and character, 1963. There are two sumerian messages in the movie, the first one can be heard in the scene where abbey listens to her recorder left on during her encounter with the aliens 0. The book is also full of examples of grammatical forms and constructions. Rubio studies the worlds very first written languages, sumerian and akkadian, which were used in ancient. After the release of the fourth kind, people on many internet forums have been. The finished book, with an official publication date of december 10, 2006, has 6,400 entries in 336 pages.
The influence of sumerian and the east semitic language akkadian on each. The creation of earth enuma elish according to the sumerian tablets begins like this. This is widely considered by my peers to be the holy grail of dead languages, but we havent deciphered the entire lexicon. Directed by olatunde osunsanmi and released in the uk over the weekend, it purports to be a dramatic reconstruction of events that took. If you were to accept this film at face value, you would be left in no doubt whatsoever that these disappearances were the result of close. Sumerian has an agglutinative morphology, based on suffixes for nominal marking, and on prefixes and suffixes for making verb forms. Why did the aliens in the movie the fourth kind speak in sumerian. The second, shorter message, is heard in the abduction scene starting at 1. An unseen species of hostile aliens are the main antagonists of the 2009 science fiction horror film the fourth kind. The book completely overlooked the philippines, whose population now is about four times that of taiwan luzon has about twice the population of taiwan. To the north of the sumerians were the akkadians, a semitic people, with which they had extensive contacts, their languages influencing each other.
The last one that came closest was communion, the witney strieber case, but this film backs up the victims claims with actualacted audio and video footage in split screen format. First attested about 3100 bce in southern mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bce. One of the larger sumerian cities may have had 80,000 residents. Theres nothing special or different, its just a choice. Awolowa odusami, an expert in ancient languages and called in by campos. Langsux native tongue is a language isolate that was spoken and written in sumer, southern mesopotamia modernday iraq. The fourth kind h have we been blair witched again. Some of these decipheriments have been pure quesses, but few people have seemingly really tried to translate them by using various sumerian lexicons found from the internet. The sumerian language was spoken in southern mesopotamia before the 2nd millennium bce and was the first language to be written in the cuneiform script. After the release of the fourth kind, people on many internet forums have been trying to decipher the aliens sumerian messages portrayed in the movie. Its the kind of chutzpah that all but promises a scintillating, skincrawling motion picture, but the fourth kind is actually quite stunningly ineffective for all the hot air it generates. Upon the release of the 2009 film the fourth kind there was rampant discussion of whether the movie was based on actual true events, or whether the marketing was simply incredibly good. Ever since decipherment, it has been the subject of much effort to relate it to a wide variety of languages.
They are implied to be responsible for several abductions in the town of nome, alaska which in real life has a unusual high number of disappearances, despite having no cases of. Sumerian is an isolate, that is, it is not related to any other language or language family, a fact that adds to its intriguing nature. Sumerian is classified as an agglutinative language with split ergativity. Book of daniel, another borrowed myth b iblical stories are never really sequential. The blackhaired sumerian elite armchair prehistory. Sumerian version, biblical story of job any idea where i might find a copy of the story, legend of the sumerian job. The fourth kind is, in so many ways, a really awful film. Its pretty common, in fact, to have special purpose words just like these, and many languages do. The late late show with james corden recommended for you.
The clip ancient sumerian from the fourth kind 2009 i thought it was akkadian, but its not. Upon further reaserch of what zimabu eter means, i came across the phrase spirit whom you cannot be saved from. The fourth kind may be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest. What about the sumerian language and the sumerian people. Right off the bat, the fourth kind cant get its act together. The sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in nippur, an ancient mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 bc. This book is a good, easytoparse reference for sumerian grammar. In the movie the fourth kind, the hypothesis that sumarian language was brought by an alien civilization. They decoded sumerian tablets its extraordinary what. Book of daniel, another borrowed myth time frames and. The following is an excerpt from the book which i am working on called the language of the sumerians phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, culture terms and phonology, which i hope to publish in english and hungarian. Alien abduction flick the fourth kind is dangerous twaddle.
First of all, the language that the extraterrestrial used in the fourth kind is sumerian. The fourth kind is a 2009 american science fiction thriller film directed by olatunde osunsanmi and featuring a cast of milla jovovich, elias koteas, corey johnson, will patton, charlotte milchard, mia mckennabruce, yulian vergov, and olatunde osunsanmi. In the 3rd millineum bc, a close cultural simbiosis developed bettwen the sumarians and akkadians, so many were bilingual. The languages in the table above are identified on the map either by language swahili or by country nigeria for hausa. Ir 15 native tongue is the language of ancient sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in mesopotamia modernday iraq. Some languages, like sumerian, choose to use a suffix instead. They may have migrated to the far east searching for high ground for survival. The fourth kind is a 2009 american science fiction psychological thriller film directed by.
Alien abduction flick the fourth kind is dangerous twaddle chris. When in the height heaven was not named, and the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, and the primeval apsu, who begat them. Ir 15 native tongue is the language of ancient sumer and a language isolate that was spoken in mesopotamia modernday iraq and in syria. It is an isolate language meaning we know of no other languages that relate to it ancestrally. He identifies the language in the recordings as sumerian. But there is no need, as there is no indication that nibiru or anything else will destroy the. Jun 12, 2010 now what it is, is that i am looking for dr awolowa odusami and hes book dead languages sumerian the same guy that is on the fourth kind. Logogram publishing is publishing version 4 of the sumerian lexicon in both softcover and hardcover. Watch ancient aliens on history channel, and youll find a couple links to the movie. Sumerian spoken language differs from sumerian written language. In the 3rd millennium bce, the sumerian and akkadian languages influenced each other from widespread bilingualism. Long after it ceased to be spoken as a mother tongue, knowledge of it continued to be maintained as a prestigious part of mesopotamian scholarship until the death of cuneiform writing some two thousand years later.
Nobody knows how the language would have been pronounced. It is an ergative language, marking with the ergative case the. Genesis, noahs ark, to name a few, both of these stories existed in sumer 6,000 years before the bible was written. Many horror films deal either directly or indirectly with the fear of religion. So, in sumerian, the possessives are suffixed just like the plural suffix. Sumerians never died out, there language became infused with the akkadian language a. Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as hebrew, akkadian, which also comprises babylonian and assyrian, and aramaic, which are semitic languages, and elamite, which may be an elamodravidian language.
But in case you need a little convincing, let me elaborate. What currently spoken language has adopted most sumerian. Its not onehundred percent uptodate on theory, but its a great reference to have. Human encounters with aliens, being most recognized. Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. Central to sitchin s narrative are a group of alien beings known as the anunnaki, whom he claimed crossed their own dna with that of homo erectus in order to create mankindfor the purpose of using humans as slaves to mine gold and other minerals.
Do you know how to say fourth in different languages. These books can take me from 2 to 10 hours to create. This is the translation of the word fourth to over 80 other languages. The fourth kind is just such a movie and i felt it was important to see it opening day to discover what is being presented to the public. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. What kind of things would you sell at the souvenir shop. This section is the initial introduction to sumerian vocabulary, phonology. Recall that sumer caused akkad to conform to cuneiform writing systemakkadians simply retained the. However, fourth kind is far more aggressive, flatout daring the audience to believe this alien abduction tale. The fourth kind is one of the most important films ever made on the subject of alien abductions. The book concentrates on those languages that have been in some form or another globally influential. I make a habit to see most movies that are related to the whole ufoalien deception.
Oct 05, 2015 in his book the ancient language of the chaldeans and the turanian languages from phonetics to the noun suffixes, almost entirely relying on the logic and pronunciation of the hungarian language, he continued his research into the comparison between the sumerian and the turanian languages. Where version 3 drew upon 36 sources, version 4 draws upon 96 sources. The fourth kind is just such a movie and i felt it was important to see it opening. There are two sumerian messages in the movie, the first one can be heard in. While you are learning about the anunnaki, there is one name which you are going to encounter again and again. And this artwork was created in the fourth millennium b.
What is surprising here is that there is a creation legend in korea that says their country started. What currently spoken language has adopted most sumerian roots or is most. About 2000 bce, sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by semitic akkadian assyrobabylonian. After campos is unable to draw an further conclusions in regression session with tyler and calls in a language expert after hearing an unidentifiable language recorded. The origins of human beings according to ancient sumerian. When a ufo is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. For example, the twentyseventh book of the old testament is daniel, which is regarded by many biblical scholars as being more apocalyptic in nature than prophetic.
The fourth kind 2009 frequently asked questions imdb. Feb 05, 2019 9 things you may not know about the ancient sumerians. Last week, around 30,000 people downloaded books from my site 8 people gave donations. Even more bizarre, the actual residents of nome would eventually become involved, concerned with apparent real abduction videos and ufo encounters on the films website. Sumerian is the earliest documented language in mesopotamia, and perhaps the world. The fourth kind is based on a screenplay by olatunde osunsanmi, who also directed the movie. An afrocentricist might argue this must mean that they were black but, to be honest, anyone apart from most north and west europeans could make a good claim to being blackheaded, in the sense of having dark hair. Sumerian is a language isolate, that is no languages related to it have so far been convincingly identified, although many of its grammatical features are attested in other living languages outside of the indoeuropean family to which english belongs. These records were written in the sumerian language during the middle bronze age. Where version 3 drew upon 36 sources, version 4 draws upon 96. The book of genesis was then cited by the film to verify the much more ancient sumerian claims. Since the script could be adapted to multiple languages, it was.
Furthermore, this book also deals with the history of the sumerian language and its use in literary and religious texts in the old babylonian period when it. Was the book on the 4th kind based on an actual book. To some, he was a brilliant scholar with revolutionary ideas about the ancient sumerian and babylonian gods. Book of daniel, another borrowed myth time frames and taboo. I would recommend this book to any person with at least a ba in archaeology and from what i have heard, the book answers questions that might be of use to researchers of the sumerian archaeology, writing, culture, history, development of civilization, the legal system, the possibility that the sumerians may have developed a government close in. In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters.
Sumerian is the language of the first laws ever written those of urnamma, 21st century bce and of the earliest literary compositions telling the deeds of legendary kings lugalbanda, enmerkar, gilgamesh. They are implied to be responsible for several abductions in the town of nome, alaska which in real life has a unusual high number of disappearances, despite having no cases of purported alien abductions or ufo sightings as well as for driving some people insane, disoriented. I want to keep them free, but need some support to be able to do so. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate. The chronology of the sumerian language may be divided into several periods according to linguistic and historical. Alien abduction flick the fourth kind bills itself as containing actual footage. Because it has a peculiar prestige as the most ancient written language, proposals for linguistic affinity sometimes have a nationalistic background. Here is an analysis of the supposed sumerian messages in the movie. Dec 23, 2011 daxter and his friends replay one of the skits in the book.
Sumerian literature constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained by the sumerian civilization and largely preserved by the later akkadian and babylonian empires. About 2000 bce, sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by semitic akkadian assyrobabylonian but continued in. Id say the most popular, but most difficult one would be book number two because its complicated and involves a lot of moving around and viewing the planet. Saying fourth in other foreign languages please find below many ways to say fourth in different languages.
439 1001 1197 111 697 210 1129 97 436 243 463 1459 484 196 229 735 906 335 1037 750 488 86 993 1379 1088 1232 1265 1489