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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] The languages spoken in ancient Mesopotamia and the Levant have changed overtime. The first people to dominate the area were the Sumerians. The language spoken by the Sumerians was adopted by the nomadic people living in the area, especially the Gutians. [b] Akkadian[/b] [IMG]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/180px-Sargon_of_Akkad.jpg[/IMG] The Sumerians were conquered by the Akkadians the Akkadians spoke a Semitic language. The linguistic evidence makes it clear that the Akkadians originated in the Sudan,migrated across East Africa into Arabia and replaced the Sumerians as the dominate group in Mesopotamia. The Gutians, once the Akkadians took over the region replaced Sumerian with the Semitic language spoken by the Akkadians. Since Akkadian times Semitic has been the dominate language in Mesopotamia. Anoth group of Semitic speakers settled the Levant.These people were a great naval power called the Cananites and Phonesians. The linguistic evidence makes it clear that the Akkadians originated in Africa. According to Haupt, in 1878, Akkadian , Minaean and Ethiopic all belong to the same group of Semitic languages, even though they are separated in time and by great geographical distance. This is surprising considering the fact that Ethiopic and Akkadian are separated by many hundreds of years. The best example of this unity is the presence of shared archaicism . The linguistic feature of shared archaicism is the appearance of the vowel after the first consonant of the imperfect. For example, one of the most outstanding features of Ethiopian Semitic languages, is the presence of a vowel following the first consonant in the verb form known as the imperfect, e.g., [b]yi quattul[/b] (using the hypothetical verb consonants q-t-l, yi is the person marking prefix) or[b] yi k'ettl [/b]'he kills'. In Southwest Semitic the form of the perfect is[b] yu qtul-u [/b] . Here we have the same hypothetical q-t-l form, but there is no vowel following the first consonant of the verb root. It is common in non-African languages to form words with two consonants. African languages usually have a vowel separting each consonant in a word e.g., unasema kiswahilli "Can you speak Swahilli'. The fact that Akkadian has shared archaicism with Ethiopian Semitic languages shows that at the time the Akkadians and Ethiopic speakers separated these groups had dialectical unity. The lack of this trait in Arabic and Hebrew shows that they have been influenced by the Indo-European speakers who invaded Palestine and Arabia between 1300 B.C. and 900 B.C. Semitic verb root [CODE]Akkadian Ethiopic/S.Arabian kl 'to be dark' ekelu Soqotri okil 'to cover' mr 'to see' amaru Geez ammara;Tigre amara br 'to catch' baru Soqotri b'r dgh 'remove' daqu Geez dagba 'to perforate' kdn 'to protect' kidin Tigre kadna [/CODE]I call the Semitic languages , Puntite languages since there homeland was probably in the region the Egyptians called Punt. The Cushitic substratum has strongly influenced the phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary of the Puntite languages. [CODE]Cushitic English Semitic Saho la wild cow *la-at Somali la id. id.[/CODE]This supports the view of I.M. Diakonoff that the Semitic speakers and A-Group lived in close proximity in ancient times. Archaeological evidence also supports this reality. A common ceramic style associated with ancient cultures in Northeast Africa and Arabia is the Tihama culture. The Tihama pottery was related to the C-Group and Kerma people. This supports the movement of some of these groups into the Horn from this region and explains why the Akkadian and Ethiopic are closely related. The evidence discussed above makes it clear that Arabia, was probably not the original homeland of the Semitic speakers. Modern Ethiopians and the Akkadians originated in Africa, not Arabia. Find out more about the Tihama culture here [URL=http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/fattowich.pdf]Fattowich web page[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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