~ What is she Munch-ing on? ~

__________… The philological pertinence of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/ MUUNK, [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk]; 1863 – 1944) within the study of Western Indo-European-Nostratic languages… The goal is to be able to die saying “We lived, loved and rose!” Like how Munch learnt to do, from a dark childhood of illness and bereavement, going on to adopt a bohemian lifestyle within which he strove always to rise to the challenge of masterfully representing his own inner emotional and psychological experience through world-class fine art…

__________The Nostratic languages are a primary language family I propose consisting of the Indo-European languages, the Uralic languages, the Vasconic languages, the Tyrsenian languages, the Hurro-Urartian languages, the Caucasian languages, and others. I took the name from a similar proposal first advanced in 1903 by Holger Pedersen, presenting a common so-called “Nostratic” ancestor forthe Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Samoyed, Turkish, Mongolian, Manchu, Yukaghir, Eskimo, Semitic, and Hamitic languages, with a door left open for the inclusion of more. The name Nostratic derives from the Latin nostrās ‘our fellow-countryman’ (plural: nostrates). Since Pedersen, it has been defined as encompassing those language families that bear relation to Indo-European.

__________They can be philosophically understood as the “Transcendent” Tongues. They are spoken by around half the world’s population -the overwhelming majority of these being Indo-European speakers- and among peoples who are characterstically discerning and enterprising. And within Europe, where Western Indo-European languages (the other branches -that I have identified at least- being Eastern inc. Armenian, Farsi/Persian & Indic languages, and what I have initially labelled “Groundbreaking” inc. Anatolian-Hittite & Tocharian) are mostly spoken, “Nostraticism” also entails formidable astuteness, dynamism, and refinement. To those small Nostratic groupings which are not Indo-European I have given the nickname “MegaQuirky”. They are invariably more liberal, idiosyncratic yet acutely discerning about it all.

THE Nostratics are the Slavs of Eastern Europe; THE Indo-Europeans are the Kurds of the Middle East, and THE MegaQuirkies are the Finno-Ugrics inc. Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish.

__________The Nostratic languages / the “Transcendent” Tongues can be technically identified by their “refined morphology, rich lexicology, astute phonetics and organised semantics, and are best employed to achieve a transcendent state of prosperity within a population,” as I have previously explained.

…Munch: Western / Nostratic / Western Indo-European-speaking man … !!! … Art and philology is an unlikely and extremely esoteric yet supreme winning combination, by which you can only be stunned thanks to Picasso!