ABSTRACT
In Chapter II I explained how the various primitive human groups evolved languages of their own, and how when a group split up into sub-groups the primitive language of the group broke up first into dialects and then, as time went on, into separate languages, and I illustrated this process by explaining how the original unitary Turkish language first broke up into a “standard” and an “l/r” language, and how each of these in course of time split up again into separate languages, the descendants of which form the family of Turkish languages today. I pointed out that other families of languages-Indo-European, Semitic, Uralian and so on-had evolved in exactly the same way. All this is, of course, no more than an elementary statement of fact and has been said many times before, but the repetition of elementary facts, even if it is sometimes irritating, does at any rate promote clarity of thought.
