From: Francisco Antonio Doria
Message: 58288
Date: 2008-05-02
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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