If you want to increase the effectiveness of your professional and personal interactions, take a different action. Choose different words. This book demonstrates how you can consciously improve the outcomes of your conversations and experiences simply by paying attention to the effects of language and mindfully selecting words that connect—not disrupt.

What differentiates Action Based Communication (TM)—ABC from other work on communication is how it compares word usage to physical exercise. The difference is experienced through exploring the physical aspects of speaking and hearing. ABC reveals key word substitutions that support making connections, first with yourself and then with others. The book offers examples of how the choices you make in short phrases and even single words can make a significant difference in the way we relate to one another. Without this knowledge and awareness, our word choices can result in disruption—a break in communication—rather than the connections we seek. The book describes methods in a simple accessible way and engages readers in exercises to develop new word choice habits and provides a log for monitoring progress and measuring results across three levels of communication: internal dialogue, written or spoken dialogue, and body language.

ABC is useful in many circumstances: professional transitions, difficult work situations, professional development, negotiations, sales presentations, group discussions of different opinions, strategic planning sessions, team meetings, customer relations, family discussions, personal relationships, and more.

The benefits of Action Based Communication include: improved morale, increased productivity, more effective, higher performing teams, reduced stress, fewer sick days, less task duplication and repetition, and a more positive and friendly environment.

There are three primary objectives in this book.  The first is to develop a linguistic system for writing Central Standard Ñgeumba (CSÑ).  The second objective is to assist those who speak CSÑ to be able to write it.  The third is to assist none native speakers of CSÑ to learn to speak and write Central Standard Ñgeumba.      

 

The area comprising the villages of Mankon, Tsohn-Mba' Mbatu and Nso'ñgwa constitute a geo-political and linguistic region referred to as Central Ñgeumba.  Although Ndzöng is not in the geo-political region, it is within the Central Ñgeumba linguistic region and the dialect is essentially Mankon.  Since the Ñgeumba dialects spoken in the geo-political and linguistic region are very similar, the Ñgeumba language in this book is referred to as Central Standard Ñgeumba (CSÑ) – a derivative of the dialects in Central Ñgeumba linguistic region of Bamenda.  This derivative is spoken in the urbanized areas of Bamenda; notably in Nitob, Ntarinkon, Mbatu and Nsö'ñgwa where a confluence of the Central Ñgeumba dialects has resulted in the evolution of CSÑ.

 

In order to further advance CSÑ, a streaming approach is used in standardizing the written language.  Streaming involves navigating through the Central Ñgeumba dialects and looking for new words, commonality in pronunciation/usage of existing words as well as looking for words that have similar meaning but do not have a complex speech sound.  

 

The reader will find value added information in this book which here-to-fore has not been present in  Ñgeumba lexicon such as, numeral counts up to one centillion, metric conversions to CSÑ, Cardinal points in CSÑ, and a new format for describing time in CSÑ.  

 

 

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A New Era of New Beginnings Each article in this book is a portion of Indian prehistory in the Ancient Near East. The gate to this ancient world was opened the day to Professor Cyrus H. Gordon offered his congratulations to me (June 1995) for my discovery of Canaanite words in Bengali and traces of that language in other Indian dialects. I did not anticipate the consequences while toying with these newly discovered Dešì or Native Indian words and matching them against words of ancient Near Eastern texts. These ancient words have been collected, deciphered, transliterated, and published by many scholars, which took many centuries of hard toil. It was astounding to realize how the Egyptian terms of a fourteenth century BC Amarna letter for particular vessels and ornaments and the name of a common Indian spice would crop up as cognates of Dešì words in Bengali (Article 1). A few of them are not only alive in common, everyday language, but all of them are almost intact in form and meaning. After finding out the existence of a massive number of Canaanite and Egyptian words in Bengali, I realized the need to uncover the historical connections. The exploration of ancient ethnic names, names of countries of the mythical cosmology, names of divinities, and their innumerable synonyms and epithets in early Indian literature unleashed a torrent of information. The data was overwhelming, unbelievable, and even traumatic. Everything I learned was against my conventional notions. Confused and terrified, I ran to Professor Gordon. Professor Gordon devoted his precious time to further investigate the Rigveda in an attempt to pave the path for my research. Today, I remain thankful for his short article The Near East Background of the Rigveda (see References), but time did not permit him to do more. After he passed away, I realized that the Rigveda contains many Ancient Near Eastern place names, but they are hidden within the proper names. This characteristic of toponymical names (names containing a place name) is elaborated in each article of this book. These ancient names proved to be the most important tools to decode the geographical settings and historical backdrops of the Epic-Puranic myths, events, and even the context of some hymns of the Rigveda and Atharvaveda. This very tool also helped to reveal the identity of the priest poets of the Rigveda as well as of the ancient Pali writers.

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