>Just a quickie for Dennis
What about me? I feel so left out. ;(
>No Dennis. As you see proto-Egyptian moved south to Nubia, not
>north.
Alright... but then we still have this obscene error on
the map, John, where you illustrate that Egyptian derived from Semitic
during the period 5800-4500 BCE! Have you fixed this problem?
>For your hypothesis to be correct, one would expect Ethiopia to be the
> >centre of the cultural dispersal, Yemen and the Sudan being second, >and
>Egypt and the Sahara being third.
For yours to be correct, there needs to be linguistically plausible dates
given for the branching out of AfroAsiatic. I'm considering the possibility
but I am concerned that you are confused of the time-frames involved. The
Egyptian-Semitic split on your map isn't plausible. For clarity, could you
summarize your scenario of AfroAsiatic migrations with the associated dates,
locations and cultures?
- gLeN
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