I was talking about the phonetic aspect of the sumerian language and not about the calligraphy/writing style.
I do agree with the fact that sumerians migrate to south and their origins can be found in the areal of Carpathian-Danube-Pontus Euxinus and vicinity - which together with the areal in Siberia seems to be the oldest cradles of our civilisation.
I think both those cradles (plus the derivatives ones formed through early migration) were in fact sharing the same traits of original remnants of a previous age.
Quoting: >S< yes i know you talked about the phonetic aspect, which is always older than the writing style. So what i basically intended was to support your Balkan connection, by linking the similar phonetic aspect since the time of the first proto sumerian scripts (similar with the balkan ones)
even if af some point, a new writing style was super-imposed over the existing spoken language.
You can ponder (maybe you already did) on a similar dynamic which holds in the english language (and other western european languages french etc.). The phonetical original is much older than the modern writing style, which was artificially created and forcefully imposed through education in a top down manner.
In its essence the English Language (grammar/writing) is unnatural in respect to the phonetic natural ability.
It basically eliminated 2 out of the 7 pure phonetic vowels from the alphabet, and also distorted the other 5 by cross-linking them with compound diphthong sounds:
phonetic written
ei a
i e
ai i
ou o
iu u
this is aggravated by having multiple words written differently with different meanings but being pronounced very similar: read, rid, reed for example
because of this 'babelian' techniques when the child has to move from speaking to writing/reading skills the brain is forced to compile a database dictionary to be able to keep track with all these associations.
this in turn has an evolutionary purpose of developing the logic/rational part of the brain, at the expense of the intuitive side.
