Re: AfroAsiatic

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> John:
> >Egyptian was a cognate with Semitic, the two languages split about
> >5,800 BCE,
>
> You're dillusional. References, please. I don't see the EB saying

anything

> close to this. In fact, it considers Egyptian very different from

Semitic.

> Maybe you should take note.

Agreed, but how different is different? Certainly by historic times,
Semitic moved in one direction and Semitic had moved strongly in
another. Of all the Afro-Asiatic languages, Egyptian is the one that
is, I believe, closest to Semitic in linguistic structure and
morphology.

Dennis, am I right here?

John