Introduction

The answer to the question below would probably involve a traditional explanatory nod that the Indo-European covertly gathers together half a world and a traditional reluctance to comment on the quality/quantity of the interrelation.

Plato (427—347 BC) discusses the origin of words, and particularly the question whether the relation between things and the words which name them is a natural or necessary relation or merely the result of a human convention. The whole dialogue of Plato’s “Cratylus” gives a first glimpse into a century long controversy between the Analogists, who believed that language was a natural and therefore at bottom regular and logical, and
Anomalists, who denied these things and pointed out the irregularities of linguistic structure.

(Mishra 2005: 8)

Welcome to this website!

As a devoted student of linguistics with wide ranging linguistic & philological interests, I have decided to make an experimental linguistic analogy of Indo-Aryan and Slavic virtually public. Although I am proficient in most South Slavic languages, I have also taken up the study of Sanskrit language, the classic language of Vedic India.

Soon after initial reading I have noticed striking lexical (and syntactic) similarities between Sanskrit and South Slavonic, mainly Slovene, language. Having “uncovered” an abundant amount of such similarities, I have decided to compose a consistent and objective cognateness corpus which would attest to one of my hypotheses.

I do not tend to draw any dramatic conclusions beyond the scope of linguistics at this point as the primary goal of this project is (primarily) to be as objective and as consistent as possible.

However, my initial and focal postulated hypothesis of linguistic interrelation of South Slavic and Sanskrit language is, what I have come to name, a Beyond Axiom Hypothesis. This corpus will, I hope, convincingly attest to the latter.