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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doctoris Scientia: [QB] [QUOTE] Is that why they speak a Semitic language?! Since you are copying things from Wikipedia, read this: "South Semitic is one of the three macro-classifications in Semitic linguistics, the other two being East Semitic (e.g. Akkadian) and West Semitic (e.g. Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew). Semitic itself is considered a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family found, as indicated in the name, both in (northern and eastern) Africa and (southwestern) Asia. (See Joseph Greenberg's classification of African languages.) South Semitic is again divided into two main branches: South Arabian, on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Ethiopian Semitic, found across the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, mainly in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Ethiopian Semitic languages have by far the greatest numbers of modern native speakers. Eritrea's main languages are mainly Tigrinya and Tigre which are North Ethiopic languages while Amharic (South Ethiopic) is the main language spoken in Ethiopia (along with Tigrinya in the northern province of Tigray). Southern Arabian languages have withered at the expense of the more dominant Arabic (also a Semitic language) for more than a millennium. The Ethnologue lists six modern members of the South Arabian branch and 14 members of the Ethiopian branch. The "homeland" of the South Semitic languages is widely debated, but is no longer believed to have been Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea or the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. The modern and historic presence of South Semitic Ethiopian languages (and Ethiopic script) in Africa is believed by some to be due to a migration of South Arabian speakers from Yemen within the last few thousand years. Such a migration is a "backwards" one in that Afro-Asiatic languages arose in Africa originally and moved into the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula in the form of Proto-Semitic, since all major branches of the larger Afro-Asiatic are found in Africa. Older research, such as A. Murtonen (1967), and Lionel Bender (1997)[1], suggesting that Semitic may have originated in Ethiopia, has been disproven by more recent research by some of its earliest defenders.[2]" You will know nothing about the history of the people in the area until you first know the descriptions of the people in the area in the past. You will never know anything about the history of the people in the area until you stop comparing apples and oranges. You will never know anything about the people in the area until you tear down that wall in your head that was built by the European colonists and missionaries. So in the words of Ronald Reagan, TEAR DOWN THAT WALL! [/QB][/QUOTE]So what, the Semitic languages belongs to the Afrasan linguistic phylum one of the four grouped African language groups. The fact that an AFRICAN population speaks a Semitic language shouldn't be odd. The question should be.. Why do populations, living in ancient and present day Southwest Asia, speak variants of the Semitic language group, an AFRICAN language group? Non-African Semitic speakers, i.e. Isrealis, Arabs.etc , also posses moderate levels of African ancestry, which in large part can be attributed to the expansion of Semitic languages into Southwest Asia via Africa. "The modern and historic presence of South Semitic Ethiopian languages (and Ethiopic script) in Africa is believed by some to be due to a migration of South Arabian speakers from Yemen within the last few thousand years." This is no longer a valid theory, all of the evidence points to an indigenous development. "Aksum was previously thought to have been founded by Semitic-speaking Sabaeans who crossed the Red Sea from South Arabia (modern Yemen) on the basis of Conti Rossini's theories and prolific work on Ethiopian history—but most scholars now agree that it was an indigenous African development." "Furthermore, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia, is now known not to have derived from Sabaean, and there is evidence of a Semitic speaking presence in Ethiopia and Eritrea at least as early as 2000 BC." "The earliest evidence of agriculture, urban settlement and trade in Eritrea was found in the western region of the country consisting of archaeological remains dating back to 3500 BC in sites called the Gash group. Based on the archaeological evidence, there seems to have been a connection between the peoples of the Gash group and the civilizations of the Nile Valley namely Ancient Egypt and Nubia." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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