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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [QB] `[QUOTE]Yes but rasol is just a racist with an agenda. No matter how much you tell these guys that present-day Ethiopians cluster together with Yemenis they still insist otherwise. That is because they are brainwashed into believing that Ethiopians are an undeniabely black race as the rest of Africa. By about 1000 b.c.e. Semitic-speaking peoples had entered the northern highlands, perhaps from southern Arabia. There they probably intermarried with the existing population. These people were the ancestors of today's Tigre, Tigray, and Amhara (as well as other, smaller ethnic groups), who speak languages belonging to the Semitic family, which includes Arabic and Hebrew. Encarta Africana - Ethiopia{/QUOTE] The debate is wheater Proto-Semetic developed in Eastern Africa and spread to Yemen or the reverse as proposed by the link. Most likely the Proto-Semetic ancestors of most Semetic speaking people originated in Eastern Africa as opposed to migration from Himyarite Arabic groups. In most cases the article presented fails to mention that the oldest Semetic speakers in Somalia are ethnically distinct from the northern Arab groups. Yemani Arabs are divided into Qahtani and Adnan. The Qahtani are the southern Arabic groups. See the following on Proto-Semetic: Arabic Background and history Arabic belongs to the Semitic language family. The members of this family have a recorded history going bak thousands of years--one of the most extensive continuous archives of documents belonging to any human language group. The Semitic languages eventually took root and flourished in the Mediterranean Basin area, especially in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and in the coastal areas of the Levant, but where the home of area of "proto-Semitic" was located is still the object of dispute among scholars, Once, the Arabian Peninsula was thought to have been the "cradle" of proto-Semitic, but nowadays many scholars advocate the view that it originated somewhere in East Africa, probably in the area of Somalia/Ethiopia. Interestingly, both these areas are now dominated lingustically by the two youngest members of the Semitic language family: Arabic and Amharic, both of which emerged in the mid-fourth century C.E. [URL=http://www.indiana.edu/~arabic/arabic_history.htm]http://www.indiana.edu/~arabic/arabic_history.htm[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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