Re: [tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of ClassicalCivi

Given that some of the examples cited were New Testament texts, which according to tradition, were written by native speakers of Aramaic, one would expect some elements of AA to creep into their usage of Greek. I don't know enough about Greek to comment but I would like to hear from those who do.

In terms of Egyptian, there were certainly loanwords such as sphinx, pyramid, etc. but these combined with other AA loanwords seem to be a very small percentage of Greek lexicon from what I've seen. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

On 2006-06-06 06:21, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> I see the difficulty faced by Indo European linguists of today. How
> do you stay clear of the Christian fundamentalist on the one hand and
> the revisionist M. Bernal types on the other, who want to label you as
> closet Eurocentricist?

By doing our job well and ignoring idiots of all denominations.

Piotr

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