Re: Lesbianism and IE gender distinction

Ooops Sorry

Glen (ME!!!) wrote:

> >>NigerKordofanian languages cover the central belt of Africa,
> >>whereas AfroAsiatic languages (to answer your next question) are
> >>part of the younger Nostratic group and cover the northern part of
>>
> >>Africa. Both groups
> >>had spread into the continent from the Middle East - first
> >>NigerKordofanian and then AfroAsiatic on top of it.

I replied

> >Gerry that is news to me. What evidence do you have that Niger
> >Khordofanian is not African? According to Cavalli-Sforza the Niger
> >Khordofanian languages are totally African in origin.

<snip>

> The evidence is linguistical. For instance, aside from the conformity
> Swahili has to the DeneCaucasian pronominal system that I lay out

(Swahili

> ni- *ni "I", tu- *tLu "we", etc), Swahili curiously has (this is from
> memory, so the vowels might be slightly off) /u-/ for "you" and

genitive

> /-ako/. This is in fact, the exact same state of affairs as in

another DC

> language called Burushaski (/un/ "you" with a suppletive form /ku/).

It's

> very suspicious.

Swahili has a great number of Afro-Asiatic features, so I would hardly
use that as a typical Niger-Kordofanian language.

John