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I didn't read the photoshop, but, yeah...all the population of the world lived in Africa until 60-80 thousand years ago, so all the languages and cultures of the world ultimately have and African origin.
This is the basis of the concept of African Eve.
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quote:Originally posted by rasol: I didn't read the photoshop, but, yeah...all the population of the world lived in Africa until 60-80 thousand years ago, so all the languages and cultures of the world ultimately have and African origin.
This is the basis of the concept of African Eve.
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I concur with your photoshop statement. However, an interesting premise would be the investigation of a Nilo-Saharan/Niger-Congo/Afro-Asiatic macro-phylum. I am uncertain of the possibility of reconstructing back to this time-depth, but it would of of interest given the common male lineage within these language families.
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quote:Originally posted by rasol: I didn't read the photoshop, but, yeah...all the population of the world lived in Africa until 60-80 thousand years ago, so all the languages and cultures of the world ultimately have and African origin.
This is the basis of the concept of African Eve.
Evergreen Writes:
I concur with your photoshop statement. However, an interesting premise would be the investigation of a Nilo-Saharan/Niger-Congo/Afro-Asiatic macro-phylum. I am uncertain of the possibility of reconstructing back to this time-depth, but it would of of interest given the common male lineage within these language families.
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I am not pretending, in what follows, to be anybody's expert on languages. Someone with any facility in the area can tear the details apart. The main point I'd like to make is that I feel that the time may come when today's languages can be shown to be derivative from Click Language. The poorly stated attempt to state that follows:
If Click language, born in Africa, is the root of all languages, I believe that the time will come when (to choose a few world languages) that present languages might be shown to be derivative from it. This includes, in Africa, ancient Egyptian and also Niger-Congo. And in Eurasia, would be the source from which the Uralic and its sub-family Finn-Ugrik and Basque come from; and Turkic families and Chinese as well, might be shown to be derivative from it.
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So, in me saying the above, if Evergreen (three posts back) is stating that the said languages might arise from Click (and I'm not trying to put words in his mouth - if I misinterpreted it, blast me away and I deserve it) I'd agree with him. If I had to re-write the last post again (right above this one), I'd say I believe ancient Egyptian and the Nilo-Saharan/Niger-Congo/Afro-Asiatic macro-phylum may one day be shown to be derivative from Click Language (in addition to the Eurasian ones mentioned). And, yes, going back 100,000 years (though today's Click Languages contain but a snapshot of the way they were back then) makes it all but impossible to show connections to today's languages. But, I think it will one day be shown that they do.
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