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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ Dana, it's rather unfortunate but just as there are Euroloons, there are also Afroloons and Clyde is one of them. :o The guy claims Berber languages to be Euoropean in origin due to a few typological similarities here and there despite the glaring differences in structure and vocabulary as well as the fact that Berber is not spoken in Europe and there's no evidence that it ever was. Meanwhile he claims Dravidian to be African in origin even though the Dravidian languages are not only farther removed geographically from Africa than is Europe, but again due to typological similarities in language despite the glaring difference in vocabulary and structure. You see the pattern here-- an Indian language group becomes African while an actual African language group becomes European. It is pseudo-scholarly nuttiness at its worst. :o [/qb][/QUOTE]I do agree there are both AFroloons and Euronuts Djehuti but the Dravidian dialects as I mentioned previously are thought to be structurally-related to African dialects by certain highly regarded Western and Dravidian scholars today. It is not Clyde's idea. Secondly, there are more reasons than just linguistic structural differences to either accept or reject a theory. Since I am not a linguistic specialist I can't speak with regard to the Vandalic influences on Berber. I am sure there is much impress in certain Berber dialects since there is definitely a strong biological and cultural influence among modern fair-skinned Berber speakers. Never-the less, there is obviously too much documented historical, cultural, archaeological, evidence on the side that says the original Berbers were Africans or Afro-Asiatics with an African name whose dialects have been influenced by non-Berber speakers and not vice versa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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