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The Sun Language Theory ((トルコ語:Güneş Dil Teorisi)) was a Turkish nationalist pseudoscientific linguistic hypothesis developed in Turkey in the 1930s that proposed that all human languages are descendants of one proto-Turkic primal language. The theory proposed that because this primal language had close phonemic resemblances to Turkish, all other languages can essentially be traced back to Turkic roots. 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. ==Origins== Influences on the theory included: * the ideas of the French historian Hilaire de Barenton, expressed in "L'Origine des Langues, des Religions et des Peuples", that all languages originated from hieroglyphs and cuneiform used by Sumerians〔 〕 * a paper of the Austrian linguist Dr. Hermann F. Kvergić of Vienna entitled "La psychologie de quelques éléments des langues Turques" ("The Psychology of Some Elements of the Turkic Languages")〔 〕 The founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, not only gave the theory official backing and material support〔 See Speros Vryonis. ''The Turkish State and History: Clio meets the Grey Wolf, 2nd Ed''. Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993.〕 but also was himself a very important contributor to its development, "though clearly he did not do all the donkey work".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sun Language Theory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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