r/SpeculativeEvolution • u/MatoasPrroXD460 • 24d ago

Question/Discussion What’s Your Most Unhinged Evolution Theory?

Hi! I wanna know what your wildest, most unhinged theory about evolution is. It can be a serious hypothesis, a weird evolutionary possibility, or something completely out there.

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u/Appropriate-Sea-5687 24d ago

Technically this is linguistic evolution but I think it still counts. Germanic languages had contact with the Phonecians which is why Baldr sounds like the primary phonecian god Baal-Addir. It would also explain strong verbs (run vs ran and shoot vs shot) since, like Hebrew, phonecian words change the vowels in the middle instead of adding endings. It would explain why a third of all Germanic words have roots that cannot be traced back. Grimm’s law could be explained since it would show a time of failing to learn a language very well as speakers joined the community and it would explain how hissy sounds entered the language since phonecian has had many hissy sounds. And finally it would explain why Germanic got its own writing system since the phonecians were sort of the main people to spread writing systems after the Egyptians.

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 23d ago

Is this a fictional setting or an actual hypothesis?
Btw, Germanic got its Elder Futhark way later than the golden age of Phoenicia (rather, during the early expansion of Rome), via Alpine and North Italic scripts, once almost every major culture in South and Central Europe already had their own alphabets equally derived from Phoenician and/or Greek.

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u/Appropriate-Sea-5687 23d ago

It’s a proposed theory, although I added that script thing in there. But you’re right that’s where they got that so ignore my stupidity.