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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Please call me MIDOGBE: [QB] ^^ What the ...? The revolutional point of GREENBERG's classification of African languages was that he only focused on genetic linguistic facts, rejecting racial , cultural and typological (like the similarity of sounds found among languages ) facts to class languages in different languages into phylae, unlike his predecessors like MEINHOF. Genetic linguistics are used to relate languages, not races or cultures. There is no "Afrasian" or "Niger-Congo" modern culture, there are languages that are descending from an ancestral language and that may spoken by people with cultures as different as their phenotypes. There is no more legitimacy to compare Kabyle culture with Logone (Northern Cameroon), than there is to compare Logone's culture with a culture of some neighbouring Bantu-speaking people. I find it completely ridiculous to forbid someone to claim that a culture is very close to another relying on linguistic non-affiliation and this without any actual evidence of the contrary. You guys remind me of some early pseudo-scientists who didn't want to link Fulani language to other Niger-Congo languages because the first were nomads unlike the latter, or were reluctant to include Hausa and other Chadic languages in the "Hamito-Semitic" family because their speakers were too "negroid" . With things like that, one starts to find "scholars" 's references to "Afrasian" accomplishments, Afrasian civilization which is no different of MARTINET's claim that ""Indo-European people" were born to rule", or some **** like that. What scares me is that we are not far away from a concept of an Afrasian, Niger-Congo "race". Genetic classification of languages is no dogma, this is theory that may evolve over the years. Even more friable is the distinction of African people into distinct cultures relying on languages family classification. We Africans already have broad-featured Blacks slaughtering elongated featured Blacks, in the name of the Hamitic THEORY. What's next? Afrasian speaking people killing Niger-Congo speakers in the name of in the name of the superiority and the accomplishments of Afrasian civilization? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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