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Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART TWO (2).

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HereI present: Herbert Tolman, “Ancient Persian Lexicon & Texts”, 1908, PART TWO (2).

INTRODUCTION. 

Golpayegan (گلپایگان) PERSIA and Khomeyn (خمين) PERSIA are names associated with prehistoric “petroglyphs”.  ABOVE are images from the archeological sites of the Persian Golpayegan & Khomeynpetroglyphs”.  They date back to seven-thousand (7,000) years ago.  


Linguist Morris Swadesh’ studied similarity of lexicon words in time. The “exponential decay function” of vocabulary in the Morris Swadesh’ method of Glottochronology’ is the decay constant  ( λ, lambda) is equal to 19% vocabulary decay per millennium.  The function is tabulated BELOW.

Dating Time  Similarity 
0  BP 100%
500 BP 86%
1000 BP 74%
1500 BP 64%
2000 BP 55%
2500 BP 47%
3000 BP 40%
4000 BP 30%
5000 BP 22%

ABOVE is the Old Persian and New Persian scripts.  Archeologist have investigated the relationship between Persian cuneiform’ and Persian petroglyphs hoping to understand the ideas before the development of writing.

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