A writing signed by José Aparicio Pérez, academic secretary of the governing board of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture, RACV, and to which Cadena SER has had access, considers that “the origins of languages ??are prehistoric, as we have been told.” taught by Dr. The RACV is an entity that has always defended linguistic secessionism between Catalan and Valencian.
And he continues: “Among the languages ??that derive from prehistoric Indo-European, which according to some researchers reached the Mediterranean and European West with the Neolithic culture, there is neither Basque nor Iberian, whose pre-Indo-European origin is unquestionable, which invalidates all possibility that the Neolithic came to our lands on the back of a human invasion, confirming, in any case, the simple acculturation by circulation of technology and products in all directions.”
To conclude that “we Valencians can feel proud of knowing our first written language, the Iberian Language, whose oldest texts date back to the 5th-4th centuries BC.” He places that language as a contemporary of Basque (the author says the Basque language) and affirms that there are more than a thousand texts or pieces of texts that prove it, although he later adds that they are texts that have not been translated and therefore “the resulting texts are unintelligible.” “.
The author explains that “it is evident that Latin had a decisive influence on the linguistic substitution that took place from the second century before our era in the Valencian Iberian territory, after the Roman conquest and our full incorporation into the new Mediterranean order that was imposed on through the first known globalization”. But he denies a total substitution and relies on the work of Doctor Xaverio Ballester of whom he indicates, without further ado, that “the linguistic arguments that support this belief are now unquestionable.”
And he blames “internal defection, both academic and political” for the fact that the defense of one’s own language has not penetrated deeper. Textually he states: “This is why the unique battle that the Valencian People, fundamentally from the streets and to a lesser extent from the classrooms, has been waging in defense of their Language and even their History and Culture for almost half a century. internal defection, both academic and political, we must bear the greatest responsibility.
