Re: [TIED] Re: AfroAsiatic

>I'm not sure I understand you right here. Are you saying that the art
> >found at, for example Tassili n Ajjer in southern Algeria, is >Khoisanid?
>Anyway, I'm certainly not arguing for an AA derived from >Khoisan
>languages.

Thank you. Please don't :S

>Okay, EB misinformed me. But it doesn't change very much.

Even if EB ends up being candy for the brain, I can't personally see how we
can split AA from the Sahara in a credible manner. Berber and Chadic on the
one side and Egyptian, Semitic, Omotic and Cushitic to the other? Omotic and
Cushitic would have to seperate away from an EgyptoSemitic group. Ick. It's
ugly.

Dennis in response to John's assertion on "very old" loanwords:

>Can you give any examples of these old Semitic
>loans into Egyptian. Not that I doubt what you say, but they could >prove
>interesting with regard to the development and movements of the >Semitic
>dialects.

Haven't seen him quote linguistic examples yet, while making a mucho grande
amount of these strange claims. I hope to see these loanwords some day.

- gLeN

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