THEORY OF LINGUISTIC DERIVATION

      For those who are not familiar with linguistics, there is one definition that is needed to understand this work   -   voiced fricatives    -   consonant speech sounds ( phones or phonemes ),  that are produced by vibration of the vocal cords and some other speech organ ( such as lips, tongue, teeth ),  that produce buzzing sounds, such as   v ,   th  in "them" ,   j ,  and  z.
 

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  -   Note also that, despite the finding that the probability that there is an association between social approval of violence in a culture and the presence of voiced fricative consonants in the language of the culture is greater than 95% in the groups considered here ( see Appendix 2, Statistical Analysis, last two pages ), this work only presents evidence of the existence of the relationship.   Because the groups considered in this study - groups for which linguistic and ethnographic information was available - represent a relatively small sample size, the evidence cannot be reasonably considered, at the present time, to constitute scientific proof.   Results indicate a relationship that may, in the future, be proven to be both factual and observable in reality, and may represent a new field of exploration of human consciousness.

   Interesting reading  -  Sections Two, Three, Five, Six, and Statistical Analysis in Appendix 2 ( last 2 pages).
 

THEORY OF LINGUISTIC DERIVATION
 

Jan Reed
 

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General Theory of Linguistic Derivation
 

Specific aspects of a cultural milieu tend to produce characteristic phones.

There is a definite predictable relationship between the collective consciousness of a linguistic group and the phonetic structure of the language of that group. In isolated cultures the relationship is direct.

In neurological terms stimulation of a given area of the brain causes a given psychosomatic state.    It is postulated that particular areas of the brain are associated with the formulation of phonetic representations of psychosomatic states. It is further postulated that the areas of the brain that formulate lexical referents (words) tend to create or use characteristic phonetic representations for given psychosomatic states.
 
 

First Hypothesis of Linguistic Derivation

The phonetic surrogates of violence are the voiced fricatives.

In neurological terms, the area of the brain stimulation of which causes violence, in its interactions with the linguistic areas of the brain, tends to produce characteristic phonetic representations: the voiced fricatives.

     In other words, voiced fricatives are phonetic symbols that, in general, represent social approval or social toleration of unprovoked violence.
 
 

Addendum to First Hypothesis

These allophones form a mutually reinforcing system with the psychosomatic state associated with their initial articulation. The verbalization of specific allophones tends to remind speakers of the psychosomatic state associated with the creation of a phonetic (lexical) referent for a given internal-external context. The unenlightened verbalization of, as well as the unenlightened act of hearing these allophones facilitates and encourages ( there is no English word known to the author to express the idea of creation of unconscious cultural patterning ) identification on another level than the level of conscious awareness with the psychosomatic state associated with the creation of the referent.
 
 

Corollaries to General Theory and First Hypothesis
 
 

Corollary 1

In general, the higher the proportion of voiced fricatives in ordinary conversation in a linguistic group, the higher the level of violence in that group.
 
 

Corollary 2

     If a linguistic group includes two or more tribes, bands, branches, or national groups that incorporate distinct and differing attitudes toward violence, then, prior to subjugation by other linguistic groups: 1) Among linguistic groups with voiced fricative phones (phonemes or allophones) in their language, the population of the more violent or most violent tribe, band, or national group should, in general, be larger than the population(s) of the less violent group, band, or nation(s); and 2) Among linguistic groups with no voiced fricative phones in their language, the population of the less violent or least violent tribe or band (there are no national languages currently known to the author in which voiced fricative phonemes or allophones are absent) should be larger than the population of the more violent tribe(s) or band(s).
 
 

Addendum to General Theory

Nikolaas Tinbergen found that a red area on the stomach of a male stickleback minnow, or on the lower half of a minnow-shaped form, acted as a stimulus to other male stickleback minnows to attack under certain circumstances1.

The first hypothesis similarly suggests that the verbalization of certain allophones - the voiced fricatives - and the unenlightened act of hearing voiced fricative allophones in normal conversation, acts as a conditioning stimulus which: 1) acts to suppress natural or innate inhibitions against violent impulses and behavior; 2) suggests - unconsciously - to speakers that violence is an unalterable aspect of human nature; and 3) by suggesting that violence is an unalterable part of human nature, causes, or contributes to, the suppression of the individual and collective will to - and belief in - the possibility of - and ability to  -  alter reality on the level of creation of language - and reduce violence in a culture or linguistic group.

To summarize this in a slightly different form: the hypothesis implies that the presence of voiced fricative allophones in a language represents a largely unperceived conditioning stimulus or social force that acts to shape the consciousness of individual members of the group; contributes to the creation of a social environment that essentially nurtures violence by operating to suppress natural inhibitions (if such inhibitions exist) to violent impulses, or by operating as a counteracting force to attempts to socialize inhibitions to expression of violent impulses (suggesting that offensive violence is natural and therefore unalterable); and acts to suppress the individual and collective (communally held) perception of the collective consciousness as possessing the ability to act intentionally on the level of creation of language - the level of the collective consciousness   (the perception of the limits of the collective ability to alter the collective consciousness) to reduce violence by conscious, intentional, collective action of the culture or linguistic group.

For example, the collective consciousness of the English linguistic group accepts virtually no limits on the imagination in the area of creation of materials and devices for "national defense" - in the construction of new, more effective, and more efficient means to destroy life. However, English culture generally perceives the individual consciousness and the English collective consciousness as powerless and unable to act on the level of creation of language; or, in some areas, actively opposes efforts to act on the level of creation of language - the level of creation of economic and cultural systems - to reduce violence by collective action (such as efforts to reduce the disparity between the most economically advantaged, and the least economically advantaged groups). The English collective consciousness manifests opposition to action - or a perceived inability to act - on the level of creation of language because reduction of unnecessary (aggressive) internal and external violence is not, at present, regarded as an important social priority or goal by the English linguistic group - reduction of violence on the level of collective consciousness - the level of creation of language - is not, at present, regarded as a goal worthy of the expenditure of any significant amount of resources by the English linguistic group.

     The theory suggests that the human community - or enlightened members of the human community - may well have the power to make use of science - directed by the intent to serve the interests of the human community  -  moral science -  to reduce levels of violence in cultures by conscious, intentional action - by intentional revision or redesign of the structure of language  and,  or  of the structure of other means of internalization and propagation of morality and culture.
 

1 Tinbergen, Nikolaas,   "Social Releasers..."     Wilson Bulletin      Vol. 60    # 1         1948       P. 6-52
     Tinbergen, Nikolaas,  The Study of Instinct   Yale University Press     New Haven    1952

 

Introduction

       At the time that this work was originally written - in 1976-77 - a tribal group on the island of Mindanao, identified as the "Tasaday", was purported to exist as a culturally and linguistically distinct group from other tribal groups on Mindanao.   It was later discovered that the members of the group identified as the "Tasaday" were actually members of a larger tribal group that was, geographically and linguistically in close proximity to the "Tasaday" on the island - the Cotabato Manobo group.   Information regarding the creation of the "Tasaday" group was revealed several years after the "discovery" of the "Tasaday" when the members of the group rejoined the Cotabato Manobo group, and stated that they had been recruited or enlisted to participate in an elaborate deception engineered and arranged by an individual with close ties to   the Philippine government at that time, Manual Elizalde, who has since disappeared, in an apparent attempt to profit from the sale of "stone age" artifacts produced by members of the "Tasaday" tribe.   At the time that this work was written, no substantial information questioning the accuracy or validity of the identification of the "Tasaday" group as a culturally and linguistically distinct group from the Cotabato Manobo group was available to the public.

       Whether actual or contrived, though, the cultural attitudes and perspectives attributed to the "Tasaday" group (absence of internal and external violence) represented what appeared, at that time (in 1976-77), to be a reasonable opportunity to test the relationship postulated to exist between collective, cultural attitudes toward violence, and the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones in the language of a cultural group.   While the hypothesis correctly predicted that the "Tasaday" language would have no voiced fricative allophones, the cause of the absence of those allophones from the "Tasaday" language was that the Cotabato Manobo language, which, as indicated, was the actual, original language of the "Tasaday" group, had no voiced fricative allophones in its phonetic inventory.

       The part of the work dealing with tribal groups on Mindanao was a result of an attempt to determine whether the concurrence of the predicted relationship with reality in the case of the "Tasaday" group was an isolated anomaly, or represented a consistent pattern among tribal groups on Mindanao.   The preliminary report begins with that part of the investigation.

 

Preliminary Report
 

       Attempts by the author to disprove the predicted relationship are divided into three areas: first, an attempt was made to gather information to determine whether the predicted relationship existed among linguistic groups on Mindanao.    Second, an attempt was made to determine whether the predicted relationship existed among the groups in a random sample of one hundred linguistic groups drawn from a list of all known languages in the world as of 1966.   Third, an attempt was made to find linguistic groups in which voiced fricative allophones were absent, particularly in areas in which general levels of violence were relatively high (New Guinea and South America).   ( The first sample drawn by lot produced only seven linguistic groups in which voiced fricative allophones could be reasonably assumed to be absent.)

       All inferential attempts to disprove the predicted relationship were based on two assumptions which may or may not have been correct to varying degrees in different linguistic groups.   First, it was assumed that there was some residual effect of the mutual influence of the phonetic structure of the language, and the culture that created it, if such influence existed; and that all such influence had not been destroyed by the effects of cultural interaction at the time that information was recorded.   Linguistic groups were therefore included in the study only if substantial indications were available from published sources of the form of the culture as it existed independently of the group recording the information.    Second, it was assumed that the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones in a language was not a result of, or influenced by the effects of cultural interaction, which may not be the case, as it apparently was not with the Choctaw language (one of the languages in the first sample of one hundred languages).    Cultural interaction was and is the apparent cause of the presence of a voiced fricative allophone in the speech of some native speakers of Choctaw.   A voiced velar fricative  -  International Phonetic Alphabet symbol - "  " -  occurs in the speech of some native speakers of Choctaw1.    However the allophone occurs only in the speech of bilingual speakers of Choctaw and English, and in the speech of monolingual Choctaw-speaking children of bilingual, Choctaw and English speaking parents2.


 

     1 Personal  communication  ; -  Thurston Dale Nicklas    1977
            Id.,    The Elements of Choctaw     Master Thesis     Univ.of Michigan    1974
 
     2 Personal  communication  ; -  Alvin Cearly     1977
         -  Project B. E. C. O. M.      Choctaw Tribal Office      Philadelphia, Miss.

 

       Results of the attempt to determine the relationship between the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones and violence on Mindanao are sketchy.   The cultural information concerning the T'boli and Cotabato Manobo linguistic groups has not been confirmed3.    Most results, as was the description of the "Tasaday" language, are based on phonemic rather than phonetic descriptions of the languages (except for the Tiruray and Agusan Manobo languages), creating at least a possibility that some voiced fricative allophones may not have been described in languages in which such allophones may not have been used to symbolize a phoneme.    This possibility, while common in some other areas (New Guinea), is apparently somewhat rare on Mindanao.   A further difficulty with the data considered was the lack of concurrent linguistic and ethnological observations for most groups.

       It appears that the cultures of most tribal groups on Mindanao are very similar in types of violent practices except for one practice: human sacrifice.   It appears that most linguistic groups which practiced ritual or ceremonial execution of prisoners of war have voiced fricative allophones4.

       Sufficient information was available to identify eight linguistic groups and eleven tribes in relation to the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones and the trait considered.   Of these, the Cotabato Manobo and the B'lit Manobo are members of the Cotabato Manobo linguistic group and the Ubo, T'boli and Tagabili tribes are members of the T'boli linguistic group.   The practice of human sacrifice has not been reported for any of theses groups to the knowledge of the only source available to the author4.

       The presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones and the presence or absence of human sacrifice is indicated for the liunguistic groups.   A plus in the first position following the parenthesis indicates the presence of voiced fricative allophones, a plus in the second position following the parenthesis indicates the reported presence of human sacrifice for that group.    A minus in either position indicates the absence of the group of allophones or the trait considered respectively.   Sources are listed in Appendix 2.   The groups are: Cotabato Manobo (- -), T'boli (- -), Tiruray (- -), Bilaan (- +), Agusan Manobo (+ +), Bagobo (+ +), Manuvu (+ +), and Western Bukidnon Manobo (+ +).   Probability of such an arrangement (seven or more identical signs) occuring by chance is 9 in 256 or 3.515 %.    Further and more extensive research may revise these probabilities in the future.

       It should be noted that these calculations do not include the Binukid linguistic group (insufficient ethnographic information in all probability  - - ) ), or the Southern Bukidnon Manobo linguistic group, excluded due to the possibility of duplication of information.

       At risk of appearing to wish to prove rather than disprove the predicted relationship, I would like to conclude the consideration of groups on Mindanao with an observation from Kenneth MacLeish describing a group of Higaonon meeting in a tree house in northeastern Mindanao: "Though I could not understand the words being spoken around me, I sensedthat there was something remarkable about the relationship between the speakers.   Suddenly I knew what it was; no sound or sign of antagonism soured the ... atmosphere of the tree house.   Here fifty or sixty related people functioned as a family ..."5.


 

 
     3 Personal  communication  -  Richard Elkins    Summer Institute of Linguistics    
         Nasuli,  Malaybalay,   Bukidnon,   Mindanao,   Philippines    1976
     4 Personal  communication  -  Richard Elkins    Ibid.     1976
     5 MacLiesh, Kenneth, "Help for Philippine tribes in trouble",    National Geographic    Vol. 140
         August, 1971    P. 220-225

 

       The second part of the investigation consists of a random sample of one hundred linguistic groups. A list was compiled of all known languages in the world as of 1966 based on Index to Languages of the World ( Voegelin, C. F. and F. M., Anthropological Linguistics, V. 8, # 6 / 7 1966 ). Every language was listed alphabetically a total of 4,396, and numbered. One hundred non-concurrent four-digit numbers, each digit ranging from 0 to 9 were then drawn by lot. Each number was then added to 2, to compensate for the possibility of drawing four-digit numbers less than two and multiplied by .4399 (due to errors in the original listing) to produce the numbers of one hundred linguistic groups.

       There were several difficulties with the use of the list in the Index for the purposes of the study. Due to inadequate information, the authors of the Index listed all dialects or tribal groups as separate languages when sufficient information was not available to determine whether descriptions indicated separate linguistic groups, dialects or tribal names. The index also listed extinct languages, which were generally eliminated from the study.

       Each linguistic group for which the information was available was classified as to presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones and approximate relative level of violence.

       Several conventions were followed in this part of the study. A linguistic group was defined as all mutually intelligible dialects with identical phonetic structures, generally considered to be 80% or more cognates.

       For linguistic groups which included more than one tribe or separate cultural group, the numerically larger or apparently original linguistic group was included in the study. The other group or groups were disregarded in the ethnological evaluations.

       Extinct languages were eliminated from the study unless phonemic or phonetic information was available from published sources.

       Only linguistic and cultural information concerning the specific linguistic group considered was accepted. Information about related tribes or dialects was not included with one exception. The Bangangte and Bandjoun of the Bamileke linguistic group apparently had virtually identical internal social structures and information was available about Bangangte external relations. It was assumed that the two groups had reasonably similar external relations with other tribes in the area.

       Two word lists from independent sources or a phonemic description of the language were considered sufficient to establish the presence of voiced fricative allophones. However, only a complete phonetic description of a language was considered sufficient to establish the absence of voiced fricative allophones. (A phonemic description of one of the languages - Wembi-Manem - included no voiced fricative phonemes, but a phonetic description of the language indicated a voiced fricative allophone.)

       For approximations of the relative levels of violence in the groups, the author considered such socially approved violence as: human sacrifice (usually execution of prisoners of war), infanticide, summary execution of prisoners of war, summary execution for violation of survival-related taboos (murder, theft, etc.), summary execution for violation of non-survival related taboos, summary execution for community reprobation - witchcraft, socially approved execution for any reason, suicide, positive valuation of offensive warfare (glorification of warfare), ritual torture, ritual mutilation, self-mutilation, violence regarded as a socially approved form of competition or entertainment, whether actual (boxing) or simulated (professional wrestling), physical coercion (corporal punishment), and genocide. Cannibalism, while not in itself violent, would indicate violent groups if regarded as a source of subsistence. Relative levels of socially condemned violence were also considered.

       At present, the author has been able to divide linguistic groups into only two groups with any reasonable assurance of independent concurrence on classifications with regard to relative levels of violence: "less violent" and "more violent".

       The determination of the classification of each linguistic group was based on two aspects of the culture: the cultural perspective regarding violence within the linguistic group (approval or disapproval), and the cultural perspective regarding violence toward other linguistic groups (positive or negative valuation). If violence was not approved within the linguistic group or in relations with other linguistic groups, the group was classified as "less violent". If violence was approved within the group in interpersonal relations, or if offensive violence was approved in relation to other linguistic groups, the group was classified as "more violent".

       Further evaluations of relative levels of violence could be made on the basis of individual violent practices, but the author has not yet made such classifications.

       The first sample drawn by lot produced seven linguistic groups in which it could be assumed that voiced fricative allophones were absent. The seven groups were Iraqw, Tama, Choctaw, Alabama, Quileute, Catawba, and Tiruray. It is unlikely that further investigation will reveal many more groups from the first sample in which voiced fricative allophones are absent, as all available published information known to the author from areas of the world in which the absence of voiced fricative allophones is not uncommon has been insufficient to establish the presence of any more groups with no voiced fricative allophones. The first sample included three linguistic groups from Australia ( Amarag, Jandjinung, and Wanamara), one from the Philippines ( Tiruray ), one from the northwest coast of North America ( Quileute) and three from southern North America north of the Gulf of Mexico ( Choctaw, Alabama and Catawba ). Of the three from Australia, (available) published linguistic information was insufficient to establish either the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones for any group.

       Of the seven groups in which voiced fricative allophones were absent, sufficient ethnological information was available to classify only four in relation to relative level of violence. The four groups were Quileute, Tiruray, Choctaw and Iraqw. The classification of each of these groups will be discussed in detail.

       The Quileute linguistic group was classified as more violent on the basis of two statements by Pettitt. First that "the Quileute were in fact a rather militaristic group"7 ,and second that "when someone died, a war party was organized and some stranger was killed "7.   Other reported practices of the Quileute do not appear to be particularly violent with the possible exception of the initiations and ritual self-mutilation duringsome initiations8.

       Some of the most violent practices of the Tiruray linguistic group were: summary execution for murder9, adultery10, incest11, revival after an individual was thought to be dead12 and vendetta warfare for adultery13.    Suicide was apparently not uncommon14.   The Tiruray were also apparently involved in territorial warfare with the Maguindanao, however, the Tiruray involvement was apparently largely defensive15.

       The most violent activity commonly practiced , though, was tooth filing as an initiation rite (filing the incisors to points similar to canine teeth)16.

       The author has been unable to find evidence of other commonly reported violent practices, other than occasional fights, and physical coercion as a child-rearing practice (slaps, pinches, beating with a stick )17. The Tiruray were classified as less violent.



 
     6 Pettitt, George A., The Quileute of La Push  1775-1935     P. 16      Anthropological Records      Vol. 14  # 1
        University of California Press      1935
     7 Pettitt, George A., The Quileute of La Push     Ibid.     P. 18
     8 Pettitt, George A., The Quileute of La Push     Ibid.     P. 15
     9 Wood, Grace L., "The Tiruray",    Philippine Sociological Review,    Vol. 2   April, 1957    P. 12-39
     10 Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray Justice    P. 20      University of California Press      Berkeley      1970
      11 Wood, Grace L., "The Tiruray",    Op. Cit.     P. 32
      12 Wood, Grace L., "The Tiruray",    Op. Cit.     P.18-19
      13  Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray Justice    Op. Cit.    P. 51
      14  Tenorio, Jose, "The customs of the Tiruray people",   Schlegel, Stuart, translator      Philippine Studies
        Vol. 18   #2     P. 364-428
     15 Tenorio, Jose, "The customs of the Tiruray people",      Op. Cit.,     P. 387-388
     16 Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray Justice    Op. Cit.
     17 Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray Justice    Op. Cit.    P. 20

 


       The Choctaw linguistic group includes two tribal groups: the Choctaw and the Chickasaw.   For statistical purposes, as stated earlier, only one of them could be includedin the study.   Estimates of the Choctaw population in about 1700 were approximately 20,00018.   Estimates of the Chickasaw population in the 1700's were around 6,00019.   Italso appears that the Chickasaw were to some extent economically dependent on the Choctaw.   For these reasons, the Choctaw were chosen as the representative of the linguistic group for the study.

       A quotation from Swanton indicates the basis for the classification of the Choctaw:  "There were no complicated religious ceremonials to arrest the attention of the foreigner and the intelligence of the native, and it is general testimony that the Choctaw were less inclined to display their superiority to other people by trying to kill them than is usual even in  ' more civilized ' 20 societies.   The significant things about them are told us in a few short sentences: That they had less territory than any of their neighbors but raised so much corn that they sent it to some of these others in trade, that their beliefs and customs were simple and that they seldom left their country to fight but when attacked defended themselves with dauntless bravery.   In other words, the aboriginal Choctaw seem to have enjoyed the enviable position of being "just folks" uncontaminated with the idea that they existed for the sake of a political, religious, or military organization. And apparently, like the meek and the Chinese and Hindoos, they were in the process of inheriting the earth by gradual extension of their settlements because none of their neighbors could compete with them economically" 21.

       Some of the most violent practices of the Choctaw were summary execution and torture of prisoners of war, and summary execution for murder22 and prolonged illness23.

       In another area of the world, the Choctaw might possibly be classified as more violent, but due to their relatively low level of violence in comparison to other groups around them, they were classified as less violent.

 

       The Iraqw linguistic group apparently exhibited a relatively low level of violence.   The only commonly reported, socially approved violent practice in the group, other than community defense, was clitoridectomy24.   Apparently the only other organized, socially approved violent practice in the group, execution for community reprobation - witchcraft - was somewhat uncommon.   According to Winter: "The Iraqw are essentially a very peace-loving people without warlike ambitions"25.    "Among the Iraqw themselves fighting, killing, and warfare were considered morally wrong"26 and  "internal strife seems to have been notable largely by its absence."27   The Iraqw were classified as less violent.



 
     18 Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico     
         Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology      Vol. 30   Part 1    P. 289
         Smithsonian Institution     Washington, D. C.      1912
     19  Hodge, Frederick, ed, Handbook of American Indians   Ibid.     P. 261
     20 Quotation marks mine.
     21 Swanton, John R., Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians     
         Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology      Vol. 103     P. 2
         Smithsonian Institution     Washington, D. C.      1931
     22  Swanton, John R.,      Ibid.     P. 104
     23 Swanton, John R.,      Ibid.     P. 170-172
      24  Huntingford, G. W. B., The Southern Nilo-Hamites     P. 130
      25  Winter, Edward,  Some Aspects of Political Organization and Land Tenure Among the Iraqw     P. 6
         East African Institute of Social Research      Kampala, Uganda      1955
      26  Winter, Edward,       ibid.         P. 13
      27  Winter, Edward,       Ibid.         P. 14

 


       The author has completed ethnological and linguistic work on six of the approximately fifty linguistic groups from the first random sample in which voiced fricative allophones are known to exist. Of these six, one was classified as less violent, and five were classified as more violent.   The one classified as less violent was Wintu (native American). The five classified as more violent were Potowatomi, Navaho, English, and Bangangte and Bandjoun, both Bamileke dialects, and possibly members of the same linguistic group. However, the author has been unable to find published information on cognate percentages between the two.

       Some details of the classification of the Navaho linguistic group will be described to indicate the basis for classification of groups identified as more violent.

       Apparently, offensive warfare was highly valued among the Navaho.   Child training for warfare began early - at age seven to eight.   Raids against surrounding groups were apparently frequent.   The Navaho apparently attacked Europeans, Mexicans, and surrounding native American groups.   They apparently attacked other groups of Navaho for women.    They also practiced summary execution for community reprobation - witchcraft.

       Navaho child-rearing practices were apparently opposed to violence within the family.    Their penalties for murder were apparently less severe than in some native American groups - generally payment of reparations.

       The Navaho were, primarily because of their warlike tendencies, classified as more violent.

       Explanations of the classifications of other linguistic groups in Appendix 3.

 

       The obvious problem with the data in the first random sample is the small number of groups in which voiced fricative allophones are absent, which leads to the third aspect of the study: the attempt to find groups in which voiced fricative allophones are absent.

       As yet, the author has found only one linguistic group in New Guinea which apparently had no voiced fricative allophones. This group, the Nimboran of Irian Jaya, while hardly constituting a random sample, does provide the first substantial evidence against the predicted relationship observed. The group apparently exhibits a high valuation of offensive warfare - early child training for warfare - and apparently physical violence by husbands against their wives was common.


 

 

 

       In conclusion, the author has inferred that three factors tend to influence the levels of violence in linguistic groups. They are: population density - cultural interaction, the presence or absence of voiced fricative allophones, and explicit endorsement of violence in the group.

       If the data so far considered are accurate, the results of the analysis of tribal groups on Mindanao are consistent with the predicted relationship. It also appears that, according to the author's evaluation, the results of the first sample will tend to support the predicted relationship.

       If the specific predicted relationship cannot be disproved (and can therefore be assumed to be correct), it can be inferred that the basic postulate of the general theory also cannot be disproved and can be reasonably assumed to be correct; that at least one psychosomatic state tends to manifest itself phonetically among the existing hominids on this planet through a specific group of allophones. It could be reasonably assumed that certain other psychosomatic states may also be innately associated with other groups of allophones in the creation of phonetic representations for those states.

 

       It appears that, if the data included are accurate, and if the present trend continues in the first and other samples of linguistic groups, this work represents the beginning of a new field; the beginning of the study of universal language and of exploration into the unconscious of social entities.

       It should also be noted that it appears that there is a tautology involved in this theory, if it is correct: if the voiced fricatives are the phonetic surrogates of violence, then the relationship is one of which virtually every member of the species is, unconsciously, if not apperceptively, aware.

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Appendix 1

First Sample Languages

 

              1)  27.  Adyukru                                                                     51)  2047.  Lamasa

             2)   67.  Alabama                                                                      52)  2129.  Lisela

             3)   98.  Amarag                                                                       53)  2150.  Lomaumbi

             4)   110.  Ambrym, Southeast                                                   54)  2231.  Macushi

             5)   193.  Arequena                                                                  55)   2481.  Mbosi

             6)   284.  Bacairi                                                                      56)   2522.  Metan

             7)   289.  Badza                                                                       57)  2524.  Metru

             8)   337.  Bandjoun                                                                  58)  2592.   Moguex

             9)   339.  Bangangte                                                                 59)  2664.   Mukawa

             10)   350.  Banjuri                                                                    60)   2666.  Muliama

             11)   431.  Beni-Amer                                                              61)  2765.  Navaho

             12)   452.  Bidyogo                                                                  62)  2792.   Nee

             13)   454.  Big Nambas                                                            63)  2821.  Ngando Kota

             14)   618.  Burmese                                                                  64)  2848.   Nguiu

             15)   684.  Cpapachene                                                            65)  2877.  Nkangala

             16)   712.  Catawba                                                                  66)  2906.   Nukuoro

             17)   805.  Choctaw                                                                  67)  2954.   Ocuiltec

             18)   810.  Chong                                                                       68)  2982.  Onin

             19)   904.  Dadrah                                                                      69)  3138.  Pho

             20)   928.  Dampelasa                                                               70)  3203.  Potawatomi

             21)   949.  Degema                                                                    71)   3213.  Pue

             22)   970.  Dibogi                                                                        72)  3246.  Quileute

             23)   998.  Western Doko                                                          73)  3257.  Rajasthani

             24)   1010.  Domo                                                                     74)   3296.  Cac Gia Roglai

             25)   1027.  Dumu                                                                       75)  3309.  Rotokas

             26)   1066.  English                                                                     76)   3328.  Rwo

             27)   1087.  Southern Estonian                                                    77)  3342.  Sae

             28)   1182.  Gar                                                                          78)  3376.  Sambaa

             29)   1212.  Gelik-Kinsal                                                             79)  3453.  Seleo

             30)   1277.  Guang                                                                       80)  3499.  Shinasha

             31)   1286.  Guegue                                                                    81)   3510.  Siar

             32)   1299.  Gumasi                                                                    82)   3514.  Sicel

             33)   1314.  Gurma                                                                     83)   3528.  Simalungun

             34)   1362.  Hapa                                                                        84)  3594.  Sonsorol

             35)   1436.  Iailai                                                                          85)  3613.  Subtiaba

             36)   1486.  Iraqw                                                                        86)  3627.  Sumbawa

             37)   1502.  Ivitorocai                                                                  87)  3697.   Tama

             38)   1524.  Jamjam                                                                     88)   3785.  Temogun

             39)   1527.  Jandjinung                                                                 89)  3858.   Tiruray

             40)   1529.  Jani                                                                            90)  3918.  Totora

             41)   1579.  Kabiu                                                                         91)  3953.  Tubu

             42)   1581.  Kabre                                                                         92)  4028.  Uiridiapa

             43)   1637.  Kamantan                                                                  93)  4033.   Ulingan

             44)   1801.  Khoi                                                                           94)  4047.  Urada

             45)   1861.  Koda                                                                          95)  4150.  Wanamara

             46)   1873.  Kola                                                                           96)  4198.  Wembi

             47)   1922.  Koya                                                                          97)  4202.  Weridai

             48)   1947.  Kuka                                                                          98)  4213.  Wintu

             49)   2016.  Kwenyi                                                                       99)  4255.  Xagua

             50)   2040.  Lala                                                                            100)  4286.  Yakut

 

                   

 

Appendix 2


 
Augusan Manobo

 

Garvan, John M.,  The Manobos of Mindanao      Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
 Vol. 23     First Memoir      United States Government Printing Office
 Washington, D.C.     1941

 

Verstraelen, Eugene, "Some elementary data on the Manobo Language"     Anthropos
 Vol. 63-64     P. 808-816      1968-1969
 
Weaver, Daniel and Marilu, "The phonology of Agusan Manobo"     Papers in Philippine Languages
 Vol. 1     P. 1-6     Summer Institute of Linguistics,   Philippine Branch     Manila      1963

 

Bagobo
Cole, Fay-Cooper, "Wild tribes of the Davao District, Mindanao"      Field Museum of Natural History
 Anthropological Series     Vol. 12     Number 2       Chicago       1913

 

Bilaan
Cole, Fay-Cooper, "Wild Tribes of the Davao District, Mindanao" Ibid.
 
Dean, James, "The phonemes of Bilaan"      Philippine Journal of Science
 Vol. 84      Number 3      P. 311-322      September, 1955
 
Reid, Lawrence A., Philippine Minor Languages: Wordlists and Phonologies
 University of Hawaii Press      Honolulu      1971

 

Binukid

 

Cole, Fay-Cooper, "The Bukidnon of Mindanao" Field Museum of Natural History
 Anthropological Series      Vol. 46      Chicago      1956     
Atherton, William, "Binukid Phonemes" Asian Folklore Studies
 Vol. 12     P. 101-104      1953
 
Reid, Lawrence A.,    Op. Cit.

 

Cotabato Manobo

 

Kerr, Harland B., "Case marking and classifying functions in Cotabato Manobo"
 Oceanic Linguistics      Vol. 4      No. 1-2      P. 15-47 1965
 
Reid, Lawrence A.,    Op. Cit.
 
Personal Communication,  Richard Elkins      Summer Institute of Linguistics
 Nasuli, Malaybalay,   Bukidnon,   Mindanao,  Philippines& nbsp;     1976

 

Manuvu

 

Manuel, E. Arsenio, Manuvu Social Organization      Community Development Research Council      University of the Philippines      Manila       1973

 

Southern Bukidnon Manobo

 

Cole, Fay-Cooper, "The Bukidnon of Mindanao" ,   Op. Cit.

 

T'boli

 

Reid, Lawrence A.,      Op. Cit.
 
Personal communication,  Richard Elkins      Op. Cit.
 
Forsberg, Vivian, Lindquist, Alice, and Healy, Alan, "The phonemes of Tagabili",
 Philippine Journal of Science      Vol. 88    Number 2      P. 225-243      June, 1959

 

Western Bukidnon Manobo

 

Elkins, Richard E., Major Grammatical Patterns of Western Bukidnon Manobo
 Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma      Norman      1970

 

 

 

Appendix 3

 

 

Bandjoun
 
Littlewood, Margaret, "The Bamileke"     Ethnographic Survey of Africa
 Western Africa      Part 9
 Summary execution for insult to chief      P. 116

 

Bangangte
 
Egerton, Clement, African Majesty: A Record of Refuge at the Court of the King of Bangangte in the French Cameroons      
 Summary execution for murder, theft of chief's property, adultery with chief's wives    P. 241-242
 Territorial warfare - offensive and defensive    P. 92-94
Physical coercion as a child-rearing practice    P. 239, 302-303

 

English
 
Brown, Dee Alexander, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
 Physical coercion as a child-rearing practice
 Territorial warfare  -  offensive  -  against hundreds of linguistic groups
 Genocide  -  or ethnocide  -  against North American natives

 

Potowatomi
 
Skinner, Alanson B., The Mascoutens or Prairie Potawatomi Indians
 Warfare when someone died for any reason   P. 38-40
 Execution of prisoners of war   P. 40-41

 

Wintu
 
Dubois, Cora,  Wintu Ethnography
 Summary execution for murder, fighting    P. 35-36
 "The Wintu were a non-beligerent people"    P. 36

 

 

 

Partial Bibliography

 

General


 
 
Australian National University,    Department of Anthropology and Sociology,      
 An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea      Australian National University Press
 Canberra      1968

 

 
Jones, Ruth,  Africa Bibliography Series
     West Africa                                            1958
     North-East Africa                                   1959
     East Africa                                               1960
     South-East Central Africa and Madagascar         1961
  International African Institute      London

 

 
Klieneberger , H. R., Bibliography of Oceanic Linguistics      Oxford University Press
 London       1957

 

 
Linguistic Circle of Canbera Publications      Pacific Linguistics      
 Australian National University      Canberra
   Series A       Occasional Papers
   Series B       Monographs
   Series C       Books

 

 
Loukatka,  Cestmir, Classification of South American Indian Languages
 Latin American Center      University of California      Los Angeles      1968

 

 
Murdock, George Peter, Ethnographic Bibliography of North America
 Human Relations Area Files      New Haven      1963

 

 
O'Leary, Timothy J., Ethnographic Bibliography of South America
 Human Relations Area Files      New Haven      1963

 

 
Taylor, C. R. H., A Pacific Bibliography      Oxford University Press
 London      1965

 

 
Tiamson , Alfredo T., Mindanao-Sulu Bibliography      Ateneo de Davao
 Davao City      1970

 

 
Tucker, A. N.,  and Bryan,  Margaret A., The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa
 International African Institute      Oxford University Press      
 London      1956

 

 
Tucker, A. N.,  and Bryan, M. A., Linguistic Analyses   The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa
 International African Institute      Oxford University Press      London      1966

 

 
Voegelin, Charles F.,  and Florence M., Languages of the World
 Anthropological Linguistics      Vol. 6-8      1964-1966

 

 
Westerman, Diedrich,  and Bryan, M. A., Languages of West Africa      
 Handbook of African Languages     Part II      International African Institute
 Dawsons of Pall Mall      London      1970

 

 

Linguistic Group

 

 

Bandjoun

 

Littlewood, Margaret "The Bamileke"      P. 87-131     in: The Peoples of the Central Cameroons      Ethnographic Survey of Africa    Western Africa    Part 9      International African Institute       London      1954
 
 

 Stoll, A., "La Tonetique Des Langues Bantu et Semi-Bantu du Cameroon"       Institut Francais d'Afrique Noir       Memoir 4      Dakar       1955

 

Bangangte

 

Egerton, Clement, African Majesty: A Record of Refuge at the Court of the King of Bangangte in the French Cameroons      Charles Scribner's Sons      New York      1939
 
Littlewood, Margaret,       Op. Cit.
 
Voorhoeve, Jan ,  "The structure of the morpheme in Bamileke (Bangangte dialect)"      Lingua    V. 13    P. 319-334      1965

 

Choctaw

 

Alvin Cearley  -  Personal communication        1977         Project B.E.C.O.M.        Choctaw Tribal Office        Philadelphia, Miss.
 
Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico      Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology      V. 30    Part 1      United States Government Printing Office      Washington, D. C.      1912
 
Nicklas, Thurston Dale  -  Personal communication  -  1977      The Elements of Choctaw      Thesis       University of Michigan      1974
 
Swanton, John R., Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians      Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology    V. 103      United States Government Printing Office      1931

 

English
 
 
Brown, Dee Alexander, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee      Holt, Rinehart and Winston      New York      1971
Lehman, Winfred Phillip, Descriptive Linguistics: An Introduction      Random House      New York      1971

 

Iraqw
Huntingford, G. W. B., The Southern Nilo-Hamites    Ethnographic Survey of Africa      East Central Africa    Part 8      International African Institute      London       1953
Whitely, W. H., A Brief Description of Some Item Categories in Iraqw      East African Institute of Social Research      Kampala       1958
Winter, Edward H., Some Aspects of Political Organization and Land Tenure Among the Iraqw      East African Institute of Social Research      Kampala       1955

 

Navaho
Hill, W. W., Navaho Warfare      Yale University Publications in Anthropology      V. 5      Yale University Press      New Haven      1936
Hoijer, Harry, Navaho Phonology      University of New Mexico Press      Albuquerque       1945
Kluckhohn, Clyde, and Leighton, Dorthea, The Navaho      Harvard University Press      Cambridge      1974

 

Nimboran

 

Anceaux, J. C., "The Nimboran Language"      Verhandlingen van het Koninklijk Institut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde      V. 44      The Hague      1965
 
Kouwenhoven, W. J. H., Nimboran      J. N. Voorhoeve      The Hague      1956

 

Potowatomi

 

Skinner, Alanson B.,  The Mascoutens or Prairie Potawatomi Indians      Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee      V. 6      1924-1927

 

Quileute

 

Andrade, Manuel J., Quileute      Columbia University Press      New York      1933
 
Pettitt, George A.,  The Quileute of La Push 1775-1935      Anthropological Records      V. 14    No. 1      University of California Press      Berkeley      1935

 

Tiruray

 

Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray-English Lexicon      University of California Publications in Linguistics      V. 67      University of California Press      Berkeley      1971
 
Schlegel, Stuart A., Tiruray Justice      University of California Press      Berkeley      1970
 
Tenorio, Jose Sigayan,  "The customs of the Tiruray people",  Schlegel, Stuart A., translator      Philippine Studies      Vol. 18    # 2      April, 1970      P. 364-228
 
Wood, Grace L.,  "The Tiruray"      Philippine Sociological Review      V. 2    P. 12-39      April 1957

 

Wintu

 

DuBois, Cora, Wintu Ethnography      University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology      V. 36    No. 1      Berkeley      1935

 

  

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