From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 58254
Date: 2008-05-01
Opinion and faith are one thing, facts supporting a
conceptual framework are another. The framework has
even been created yet and the facts to support such a
relationship are still out there. I'd have to say not
yet because AA as a reconstructed language acceptable
to the majority of AA scholars does not exist yet
--AFAIK. I don't dismiss attempts to link IE and AA
and, in fact, support them because my belief is that
all languages are ultimately related but it's a belief
still unsupported by facts. Get past all the mass com
stuff and you'll get there.If you believe all languages are ultimately related, does that extend to African languages as well? It is curious how there seems to be little scholarship on the origin and relations of African languages. I saw a program on TV which stated that one widely believed hypothesis is that the human ancestors of all Eurasians migrated from Africa through the Sinai peninsula about 50,000 years ago. Would linguistic affinities extend back all the way to this time, or have languages and language families arisen independently since then (i.e. no relationship between Eurasiatic and the various African languages)? And if they arose independently, did they all arise in one language at the time when ancestral Eurasiatic humans were still close to Africa (and hence close to 50,ooo years ago), or did they arise independently from each other once the various populations had reached their homelands in various parts of Europe and Asia, later than 50,ooo years ago?
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