“But with your help, I finally figure out the interesting map of the sound of “the bird” (ger), it seems to me that from Egypt it is a hard “GA“, then it gets softer as it goes north and east. In Yemen, in the south the also say “Ga” (already softer). In Greece, it is “Ge“……… Then in the middle of Yemen from a region called Ibb/Taiz (where most of the emigrant from Yemen are originated because lack of enough farm land for the population, many of them emigrated to other countries), this people actually have a very interesting sound of “gi-ch” (a mixed of the two sound, you have to hear it), then in classic Yemen Arabic, it is of course the “ج” (gim/jim = jer) then we learned in ”fusha”, then as you told me, in Persian you have this “ﭺ” (che) sound……….. and then as you go east further into China, it became “jerk” again in the north China, and when it goes to S. China, my region, then it became “tje” for bird and “Gai” for chicken, sort of similar to Egypt again. Very interesting!
So how on earth I can write this down? But you can see a map here, a big circle when the sound made a full return to its origin…… or if the sound came in the middle (around Sumeria), it spread east (to China) and west (to Egypt) and ended up the same way???? I do not want to say who is first or last (human ego is very delicate), but the thing is that it seemed like a record of how human beings learning how to make sounds!!! How to control our muscles like a child learning how to talk!!!!
“Dj” (in heiroglyph) and “GA” (colloquial Egyptian) –> “Ga” –> “Ge” –> “gi-ch” –> “jer” –> “che” –> “jerk” –> (Chin) “tje” (bird) / “Gai” (chicken) as in “dijeje/digaga” (Chicken in different accents of Arabic)
This is the same form between ancient Chinese drawing of exactly a bird, which ended up now like this “隹” (short tail bird – see its wing?) or “鳥“ (long tailed bird – see the long tail) and another simplified form of the bird shape “乙” and Arabic “ج” (the dot was added much later) the form of a bird. The island (al-jezeera) is the long tailed bird on a hill/rock “ger” (bird on) “sahra” (rock) = 島
And as I said in Chinese all words of “ga”thering carries a “bird” as 雥 / 雦 / 集 (3 birds or 1 bird on tree top) (sound “jaap” = gather, collect, jam together) and of course all Arabic words as well like in “جمع“ “مسجد” “جامع” “جامعة“ (jamah, jama’, masjid, jama’) from gather to University to mosque, all are places of “congregation”, like the gregarious birds, congruent!!! When we write, we put the “bird” inside as a sound, and symbol and to imitate reality as a picture!!
Conjugal is marriage by joining the two, in Chinese it was expressed as 雔 (2 birds together = jugal/jam) and it carried in Chinese the sound of “zau (jau)” like Arabic “زوج” (zawag), see the bird is also there!!! And the Egyptians said “جوز” (gawz), the bird also there, but did you notice it is a reverse of the arabic alphabets? And in Chinese in another love bird, we also have the same sound!! In Greek, since the Arabic “Jim” was the “Gamma” (harder J), the marriage is “Gamos”. Same system!!
And the Egyptian ”جوز” (gawz) marriage, is the word the Arabs used for passport “جوز” (jauwaz – same spelling, different pronunciation) has the bird because it was link to the pilgrims, it was understood as a flock of birds like the peregrine (a falcon like bird) flying every year to its sacred destination!!
See how important the observation of birds in forming languages and writings? That is why the ancient Egyptian god of writing was Thoth, a bird, and as I told you the ancient Chinese book also talked about our legendary inventor of writing did so by the observation of the foot prints of the animals and birds!!! Pedigree!!
“Grue” in Latin is the crane, the “Gerano” in Greek. And Pedigree is the feet (ped) of the “grue” (crane), the 3 toes which we used to draw a family tree……. we followed the feet of our ancestor, represented by this “auspicious bird” which later linked with a “stork” (looks similar) which brings the baby every years (as legend goes every where, including China). The family line also has the other image of a 3-ply thread, like the 3 toes of the bird……….
Every alphabet had been a picture, then it became stylised as a symbol, then it became a phoneme (a sound sign), then we use it blindly as “alphabets”!! So when we “spell” a word, we are still drawing all the elements as pictures inside a word!! So to say!
It is fascinating how close the way we think in ancient times and how similar the sounds were, so was there really ONE language? I guess (this is my guess) human as an ape, started as sign and body language, then we actually learn to speak bit by bit like a child………… language history is how human learnt to control the muscles of our mouths, tongues, lips, teeth…….. bit by bit. And as times goes by we speak with more skill and more speed!! We distinguished many sounds are we are proud of it, it became a competition, see how Arabs are proud of their confusing 4 “h”s????? I found out every single “H” in Chinese we have exactly the same sound in one word meaning exactly the same thing!!! But since we are not based on consonants and alphabets, we just don’t care if you do not speak it so “rightly” as long as we understand what you say!
In the Bible, there were story that when a group tried to identified their enemy, they forced every passers-by to pronounce a certain consonant, because at that time certain group could not dominate a sound………. those who could not pronounced that sound revealed that he was not a member of a group, they might be killed because of that…………. (like many Chinese until now cannot say “R”, they will only say “L”, unless they were trained as a child in another language).
Language and writing became a tool of “separation” instead of “communication”, because that was a weapon we used to distinguish people, that was a weapon we used to “spy” and convey secret messages………. The Tower of Babel is in a true sense, because of economic and political benefit, different groups of people started to use symbols and language as a tool to exclude those who they didn’t want to include in their plan. Interestingly, I started to research in a tool of communication and I found out that people actually use a lot of effort to hide things inside their writings so the other could not understand…………. very interesting!!
tracking the "g" sound across continents
