Modern nation-states did not organically grow, they were forced into shape. The language, history and culture of the common people in every country was suppressed, their languages were banned and new arbitrary borders drawn.
Critics of alternative-and-fake-history research say “Do you think you know more than Historians? Than Governments? Than the experts? Than the fact-checkers? So everyone else was wrong and you’re right? You’re delusional”.
This mainstream viewpoint omits the fact that our ancestors were banned and forbidden from using their languages with which they told their oral histories and traditions, handed down from generation to generation. Imagine forbidden someone to speak and then proceeding to define their “History” for them. Sound crazy? That’s exactly what happened. The purpose of this article is to prove it.
In 1860 only 2.5.% of “Italians” spoke Italian. In 1950 it was only around 25%.
What then, did Italians speak? They spoke:
German (and still do in parts of northern Italy)
French
Occitan
Ladin
Greek
Slovene
Croation
Venetian
Lombard
Emilia-Romagnol
Ligurian
Friulian
Tuscan
Umbrian
Romanesco
Neapolitan
Sicilian
Sardinian
Gallo
Arabic
Raetic
Lemnian
Etruscan
Many of these languages are similar to each other, the distinctions are made-up modernisms. Most wouldn’t be understood by modern Italians, including so-called “accents” such as Neapolitan or Venetian.
It’s said that the Etruscans and their language have been extinct for thousands of years but I have my doubts. My two previous articles on the Fake History of the “Roman Empire” explain why.
The Etruscans called themselves the Rasi, Rasa, Rasne, Rassen or Ras, which is likely why many Italian surnames are Russo and Rossi. The ancient Rhaetic language spoken in the alpine countries is closely related to Etruscan as well as to the more modern so-called “Rhaeto-Roman” languages. Rhaeto-Roman is said to be a mix of Latin and Rhaetic by locals, but this is denied by linguists.
Upon posting this to my social media account, I got the following rebuttal:
Fun fact: 10 times out of 10, rebuttals to the info shown on this website attack the messenger instead of the message. This post, one out of hundreds, alleges that I’m uneducated. In another post, the same person calls me a “dumbass”. No counter-info is provided. After 6 years of running this website, I have yet to receive a rebuttal that addresses the specific information. Why? Because there is none.
Another Fun Fact: 10 out of 10 people I have shared this information with in the past, were surprised. They were under the assumption that Italians have always spoken Italian (and Latin before that). Why? Due to omission of the facts. Debunkers claim that this doesn’t constitute a faking of History, because it’s “known” that Italians didn’t speak Italian. But a footnote in some academic journal behind a paywall does not mean it is “known”. If it were known, it wouldn’t surprise people.
A few word examples. The Italian word for “head” is “testa”. But in megleno, istro, aromanian and dalmatian the word for head is “cap”. In Friulian it’s “cjaf”, in Ladin it’s “cef”, in Romansh it’s “tgau” and “tgea, in Lombard it’s “ko”, in Emiliano it’s “co”. The ancient German word is “Kappe” (which in modern German simply means “cap” or “head covering”) and the modern German word for head is “Kopf”. The Italian word “testa” comes from the native languages called piemontese, romagnol and ligurian.
To make a long story short, a closer look at the pre-Italian languages reveals they were a mix of Estruscan, Latin, Greek and German.
Another fun fact: New languages being pushed onto people happened in every country.
Yes, Italians didn’t speak Italian and the majority of Finnish people didn’t speak Finnish. And less than half of Russians spoke Russian:
The leadership of Russia spoke French:
Hundreds of languages were spoken in old Russia, we’re told. The mainstream view on this is that it makes sense to be united under a common language or that it’s difficult to administer a nation of scattered languages. Others argue that “divine judgement” administered the mixing of languages (tower of babel story). But were the languages really that different from each other? There were distinct languages, but many so-called languages were merely dialects.
Just 120 years ago, 0% of people spoke Hebrew:
If modern Hebrew is a new invention, then what on Earth did Jews speak across centuries? Many spoke “Yiddish”, which is a dialect of German.
In the 1700s the majority of Irish people didn’t speak English:
Gaelic has many word-similarities to Norse (ancient German) and some loan-words from Latin.
In the 1700s, Moroccans primarily spoke Tamazight, not Arabic. Tamazight is a variation of Amazigh which is the umbrella term for the languages spoken in ancient northern Africa.
And the Turkish people didn’t speak Turkish until recently:
Rural Turks did not understand Ottoman Turkish because it “borrowed extensively” from Arabic and Persian. Ottoman “Turkish” was written in Arabic script and used Arabic grammar. Persian and Arabic vocabulary made up 80% of its vocabulary. After knowing these facts, you realize that Ottoman Turkish wasn’t actually Turkish.
Latin was spoken in Hungary until the 1800s:
None of South America and Latin America spoke Spanish before colonization.
Need I go on?
All around the world, people had a new language and culture hoisted upon them by force, not choice. This is one of the reasons our History is obscured. Many histories were told as oral traditions from generation to generation. If there is no one left that speaks the original language of a people, it also erases their oral history.
Native languages were actively banned:
Language banning occurred across the world. “Colonization” meant displacing, suppressing and eradicating everything that came before.
In 1367 the English officially banned the use of Irish languages. Shortly thereafter, the original language spoken in the Faroe Islands was banned. In 1535 Welsh speakers were barred from holding public office.
The Spanish banned Nahuatl in the Americas and Arabic in Spain in the same century. In 1633 the Spanish decreed that the Roma people “don’t exist”, thereby banning their language and culture. In the 1600s the Dutch East India company tried to eradicate native languages in South Africa. In 1697 Belarusian was banned from all court and state documents.
In the early 1700s Spain forbid people to speak in their native Andalucian, Aragonese, Catalan and Galician tongues. The Portugese banned the speaking of indigenous languages in Brazil in 1757. In 1722 the polish language was replaced by German throughout the Government in an attempt to get rid of it. In 1789 the French Revolution imposed a common language for all of France, suppressing native languages – oppression under the guise of “equality”.
In 1819 Polish was once again banned from courts and schools in favor of German. In 1831 the Canadians required English in schools for indigenous children. In 1837 the British East India Company got rid of Persian as the official language of Government. In 1842 teaching Romanian in Bessarabia (now Moldova and parts of Ukraine) was forbidden. In 1850 the Germans labeled anyone speaking any other language than German “enemies of the Prussian Empire”. In 1851 Norwegians forced Sami schools to teach Norwegian to the children. In 1860 Occitan was spoken by 35% of the population in France. Through banning policies the language has almost been completely eradicated by today. In 1864 Lithuanian was forbidden. In 1864 New Zealand decreed English, not Maori to be taught in schools. In 1868 the Ainu language was banned in Japan, shortly there after all indigenous languages were eradicated. In 1880 the Hawaiian language is replaced by English. In 1885 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuana are told that Russian is their mandatory language. In 1892 Kurdish is forbidden in Kurdistan. In 1896 teaching and even learning Hawaiian is banned by law. In 1898 the Norwegians and Swedes notice that people are still speaking Sami, even though it had been removed from schooling, so they decide to completely outlaw it.
The list of language bannings is much longer and continues through the 1900s and to this day. The role that multi-national companies such as the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company had in banning languages is interesting. If you don’t understand what people are saying, you can’t control them.
Banning languages is one of the reasons our real History is lost. Most cultures nurtured long oral histories via their language. But with a new language taught in school, a new mindset was also instilled and taught. Cultural traditions and beliefs were dismissed as barbaric, primitive superstitious nonsense and replaced by the intellectual enlightenment.
Once their language was banned, the histories that were told in these languages, also disappeared. People that suppress others speech and then proceed to tell you what their “History” is are about as credible as a murderer lecturing on ethics.