David O'Keefe & Ronica Lee O'Keefe
in Houston, Texas
To release the locked-up light in Ireland's language ...First, understand the words our ancestors used. Then use these words to understand our ancestors ...And our ancestors' lives will light up our own!
.....We are students of Celtic languages, culture, and history, Irish in particular. We believe that our Celtic ancestors have much to tell us, via their ancient archaeological artifacts and Old Irish words, almost as if they were sitting across a table from us and reciting their lives and dreams to us. The first part of our program will be to examine the relationship of the Irish language to other ancient languages. The second paret will be to look at Celtic culture up to our own times, to see what its powerful patterns and structures have to say to us.
.....Each language has its own destiny. Sometimes due to great poets and philosophers in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and also to cultural independence, some peoples' languages have become great literatures, with characters and stories which reveal human nature in all its permutations. Other peoples' languages reveal a great deal about the movements of the human race, such as Native Americans crossing the Bering Strait. We believe that at this time the mission of the Q-Celtic Irish language, one of two major branches of the Celtic languages along with the P-Celtic Welsh and Breton branch, is to help us understand the roots of human language itself. Towards this goal, we are posting our Irish linguistic research on our home page. Though we are amateurs, we are mindful of the many people who have made contributions beyond their formal academic training.
.....We have written a 62 page paper, in parallel tabular presentation, SIX HUNDRED PLUS SIMILAR IRISH AND AKKADIAN WORDS , which you may access at this Web site. This paper proves that the Indo-European languages are related to the Semitic languages. The Nostratic hypothesis becomes much more realistic with a Eur-Sem-Ind relationship. The strong correlation of 600+ Irish and Akkadian words is evidence that the Irish language is a valuable linguistic tool. You may download this paper from its FTP address, http://members.aol.com/IrishWord/akkadian.htm.
.....You may download this 62 page paper as a non-table file, AKKAD.HTM , via FTP at http://members.aol.com/IrishWord/akkad.htm.
.....Akkadian is the ancestor of Assyrian. Some Assyrian persons have seen a resemblance between many Irish and Akkadian words. Should you be interested in looking at the Assyrian language and history, there are some Web sites which can be reached. Two good Assyrian contacts are http://www.aina.org/aol/peter, and http://www.assyrian-language.com/ . We believe that the relationship between Irish and Akkadian and other ancient languages is one of the great treasure of the irish people.
.....The names of ancient Celtic tribes and places tell us a great deal about our Celtic ancestors. When one examines their tribal names, one finds that there was a careful system behind them. Celtic tribes often took their names or part of their names from rivers and mountains in Central and Eastern Europe. In a 58 page paper entitled CELTIC CULTURE'S RANGE IN TIME AND DISTANCE, the names of Celtic peoples in Western Europe are explained using related peoples and rivers in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to Anatolia. Celtic tribal and place names may go back into the middle of the Neolithic period, to the Megalithic and Corded Ware cultures. An abbreviated version, entitled CELTIC TRIBES' RIVER NAMES , is also included.We hope you enjoy this proof of the power of the Celtic peoples' oral culture and tradition.
.....We intend to upgrade these papers as time permits and would appreciate your feedback. Thank you.
Slan Agat!
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