Re: Afro-Asiatic

Glen wrote

> The AfroAsiatic languages (ignoring population movement) must have
> come ultimately from the Middle East. I don't think that accepting an
> Egyptian population movement from the south Nile however is in

conflict with

> the linguistic movements of AA languages.

Glen can you tell me why you think Afro-Asiatics ultimately came from
the Middle East? And what was the route they took into Africa? I think
it relates to your thesis about Niger Kordofanian.

It is interesting that you have languages swimming against the tide...
Movements prior to the origins of Agriculture were all out of Africa
not into it.

Interested

John