ATLANTIS AND HER PEOPLES

Berlitz continues:

An unusual example of a word that sounds and means the same in a number of languages scattered throughout the Old and the New World is the word for ‘father’ – aht, tata, ata, with slight modifications. It is especially interesting in that this is not a natural sound comparable to the variants of ma, mama, mu, um, etc. for ‘mother’. One is led to wonder whether these recognizable variants of what is essentially the same word for ‘father’ represents an echo of one of the world’s first languages.

AMERINDIAN & POLYNESIAN	EURO-ASIAN-AFRICAN CONTERPART
Quechua: taita	Basque: aita
Dakotah: atey	Hungarian: atya
Zuni: tatchu	Tagalog: tatay
Seminole: tati	Russian: aht-yets
Eskimo: atatak	Ancient Egyption: aht
Nahuatl (Aztec) tatli	Turkish & Turkic languages: ata
Central Mexican Indian Dialects: tata	Old Gothic (variant): ata
Fujian: tata	Latin (colloquial): tata
Samoan: tata	Romanian: tata
	Slovak: tata
	Maltese: tata
	Sinhalses: tata
	Yiddish: tatale
	Cymric: tad

Although these comparisons are not conclusive proof of an Atlantean origin, it would appear that at some time in the dim and distant past mankind shared a single language, which became split into different dialects and ultimately altered over long periods of time following cataclysms when people found themselves living in isolated pockets away from the original collective of which they had once formed an integral part. Perhaps the biblical myth of the Tower of Babel is not so far-fetched after all. But then, surely, all myth must contain some element of truth.

From Atlantis – Myth or Reality by Murry Hope

 

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