Hello Mr. George van Diem, in my previous letter to you, I
agree with Stephen Oppenheimer (1), the only way south out of Africa by
prehistoric people took place about 90-85,000 years ago. Along the way, there were
groups of people who invaded India, forming the first population here. But
74,000 years ago, the Toba disaster and atomic winter destroyed them and their
Indian habitat. Meanwhile, the migration flow has reached Southeast Asia and
70,000 years ago set foot on Vietnamese soil. However, in a 2012 article,
Oppenheimer himself retracted this statement. But, by my research, I found his
2003 discovery to be correct, so I still maintain my opinion. By examining 35
Stone Age skulls and 35 Metal Age skulls, Vietnamese anthropology discovered
that two great strains of Australoid (M) and Mongoloid (N) fused to give rise
to three ancient Vietnamese strains, namely Indonesian (haplogroup O),
Melanesian (haplogroup C), vedoid (D), of the same type group of Australoid.
(2) Meanwhile, a number of individual Mongoloid groups ascended northwest of
Indochina and stopped in front of the northern icy wall.
About 50,000 years ago, due to the increase in population,
people from Vietnam went to the islands of Southeast Asia, to Australia. Perhaps
due to the habit of racial gathering, the Negrito came to the Andaman and
Nicoba islands. There were groups that crossed Laos and Myanmar, reconquered
India at this time without people, becoming the first inhabitants of the
subcontinent, called the Dravidians.
40,000 years ago, thanks to an improved climate, people from
Vietnam went to China. From the Southwest of mainland China, an influx of
people penetrated the Tibetan plateau, entered Northeast India, becoming the
regional Dravidians. Meanwhile, the group of Mongoloid people from Northwest
Indochina followed the Western China corridor to Mongolia. Because of keeping
pure genetic resources, it is called North Mongoloid.
7000 years ago, at Yangshao South Yellow River, the ancient
Viet met and merged with the North Mongoloid people, giving birth to the South
Mongoloid race, known as the modern Viet. The modern Viet people increased in
number, becoming subjects of the Yellow River basin. Over the course of
history, the South Mongoloid people migrated south, genetically transferring
the South Chinese, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asians to the South Mongoloid
strain.
About 5000 years ago, from the west of the Yellow River
basin, the South Mongoloid brought agriculture to the southwest, invading
Northeastern India. This migration was predominantly male, creating the
region's Austroasiatic-speaking population. About 4000 years ago, from Vietnam,
an influx of South Mongoloid people passed through Laos, Myanmar to India,
contributing to the Austroasiatic-speaking community here. Thus, there are two
classes of population from Vietnam infiltrating East India. At the same time,
there were also two classes of populations from China infiltrating Northeast
India. The first wave of Australoid genetic code, spoke ancient Vietnamese. The
latter is the genetic code for South Mongoloid, speaking an Austroasiatic
language.
Dear Professor George van Driem, in your article you wrote:
“The Indo-China structure contains all the languages of Asia and Oceania as far
as Japan, Polynesia and Papua New Guinea... The idea that all Asian and Oceanic
languages share some "common mixed origin" appealed to the British
colonial authorities, who were convinced that they would be able to rule the
peoples. Asians would be better off if a language study program to understand
Indian could be implemented. Over time, the putative Indo-Chinese language
family has shrunk in size, but the model is also tinged with racist rhetoric.
Chinese has been a written language for millennia, with it serving as a vehicle
for an advanced civilization. However, the eccentric and isolated position with
which the Chinese were excluded in the Indochinese genealogy was not based on
any appreciation of the subtleties of Chinese culture, but on a racist judgment.
to the Chinese language and people arose among Western scholarship at the time
of the Opium Wars. The renaming of Indochinese doctrine to “SinoTibetan” in
1924 helped to mask earlier racist underpinnings, but the model continues to
treat Sinitic as a phylogenetic oddity.”
Sir, this is worth discussing. First of all, it shows that
the identification of language families is not based on scientific basis but on
political prejudice. Then, due to the lack of understanding of the origin of
the Chinese population, the linguists did not understand the Chinese language
correctly. From studying the process of population formation in East Asia shows
that, although John Caspar Leyden said: “The Indo-China structure contains all
the languages of Asia and Oceania down to Japanese, Polynesian and Papua New
Guinea…” but in fact should be “Vietnamese Structure.” Because Vietnam was the
first place where modern people appeared and from there spread to dominate
Asia, Vietnamese is the mother of Eastern languages. Therefore, the Vietnamese
structure contains all the languages of Asia, Oceania to Japan, Polynesia and
Papua New Guinea...
From a survey of 35 stone age skulls and 35 metal age skulls
found in Vietnam, Professor Nguyen Dinh Khoa discovered: "In the Stone
Age, on Vietnamese soil, two prehistoric human races appeared, Mongoloid and
Australoid. They interbred and their descendants continued to breed become four
strains of ancient Vietnamese: Indonesian, Melanesian, Vedoid and Negritoid,
the same group of Australoid type. In the metal age, the Mongoloid appeared and
became the subject of this land. The Australoids gradually disappeared, whether
by migration or assimilation?" (2) Of course, at this time, the leading
anthropologist in Vietnam cannot know, where did prehistoric people come from
and where else did the Vietnamese go? But Chuan-Chao Wang & Hui Li say the
prehistoric East Asian population is distributed as follows: (3)
Haplogroup C =
Melanesian
Haplogroup D =
Negritos
Halogroup N = Mongoloid
Halogruop O = Indonesian
Thus, although there is no genetic material, with the work
of Nguyen Dinh Khoa, we can confirm that people from Vietnam went to China.
During those first migrations, the ancient Vietnamese made
up the world's population. Of course, Old Vietnamese was the language of the
original inhabitants of the lands. Not only as John Caspar Leyden observed:
"The Indo-China structure contains all the languages of Asia and Oceania
as far as Japan, Polynesia and Papua New Guinea", but in fact, the ancient
Vietnamese language did so the original language of the Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and Native Americans, but also the subject of making up the European
language. To be fair, Leyden's proposal isn't the earliest. In 1892, French
Admiral Henri Frey in Paris published the work L'Annamite mere dés language,
saying that Vietnamese is the mother of the world's languages. (4)
The reason Leyden's proposal was questioned is because the
linguists did not understand the history of the formation of the Chinese
population, so they did not understand the history of the Chinese language.
Now, archeology and genetics have confirmed that the first inhabitants of China
were ancient Vietnamese, mainly Indonesians. Therefore, Chinese is ancient
Vietnamese. About 7000 years ago, the South Mongoloid was born in the Southern
Yellow River, being a mongrel hybrid, so it was influenced by the Mongolian
language. The first is in grammar. The order in Vietnamese is the main
component first, the sub-element after: I đi trước, quả bầu, lá dong, thịt
gà... Meanwhile in Mongolian, the main component is behind: Tôi trước đi, bầu
quả, gà thịt, dong lá... After 2698 BC, when the Mongols occupied the Central
Yellow River and established the Emperor's state, the Chinese language changed
to a more Mongol way of speaking. However, until the Han Dynasty, Chinese was
still basically Vietnamese. Witnessing this is the book 說文解字 (Shuōwén Jiězì- How to read and
interpret words), a book that is considered the first Chinese dictionary but is
actually a Vietnamese dictionary. It confirms that all Chinese characters are
correct only when read according to Vietnamese sounds and interpreted according
to the ancient Vietnamese meaning. This shows that, until the Han Dynasty, the
Chinese still spoke Vietnamese.
Since the Han Dynasty, many millions of Altaic, Tungusic,
and Turkic people have invaded from the West and North, and there was the
periods when the Yuan and Qing people dominated China for hundreds of years, so
the Chinese changed to the voice of the court in the capital. Because the Yuan
and Qing are foreigners, they do not pronounce certain Vietnamese rhymes
correctly, so they are forced to speak with a lisp. This lisp became the
official language of the Chinese people. In fact, mandarin is a way of speaking
Vietnamese livid by foreigners that is imposed on the Chinese people. It can
also be said that Chinese is a degraded version of Vietnamese. Therefore,
Chinese has become a deformed language in the Vietnamese language family.
Not a linguist, but searching for Vietnamese roots forced me
to work with historical linguistics. I think that, two centuries ago, due to
the limitations of humanities on the origin of humans and Eastern races,
historical linguistics was born with the ambition of comparing languages to
find out the origins of different people races. But in fact, the linguists were
wrong when determining the Eastern language families. This is even worse today,
when most scholars carry out the reverse process to want from historical
linguistics to find out the origin of the ethnic groups. I went the other way,
from archeology and genetics to the early origins of Asians and their migration
into the world. And naming languages is the job of linguists. I hope return
the correct position to the truth: Vietnamese is the source of all Eastern
languages.
Looking forward to discussing this subject with you in the
hope of learning more.
Best regards
Ha Van Thuy
References:
1.
Stephen Oppenheimer. Journey of Humankind
- Bradshaw Foundation https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/index.php
2.
Nguyen Đinh Khoa. Nhân chủng học Đông Nam Á.
Hanoi, 1983
3. Chuan-Chao Wang & Hui Li. Inferring
human history in East Asia from Y chromosomes https://investigativegenetics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2041-2223-4-11
4. Henri Frey. L'annamite,
mère des langues; communauté d'origine des races celtiques, sémitiques,
soudanaises et de l'Indo-Chine. Paris, Hachette et cie, 1892.
