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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Orionix: [QB] [QUOTE]Ausar wrote: 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[/URL][/QUOTE] Well the semitic language is a subgroup of the larger Afro-Asiatic branch which is largely located in Africa. [IMG]http://www.abbottfamily.clara.co.uk/images/langdevfrometh.jpg[/IMG] The Afro-Asiatic family must have originated in Africa (probably the present-day Sahara or Nubia), where all branches except Semitic are exclusively found. [u]The Semites then must have migrated, probably at first to Arabia from East Africa, a movement later reversed by the Ethiopian Semites.[/u] So the ethnic groups who inhabit coatal Yemen today are not siginificatly different from those who inhabit Ethiopia and culturally they share more in common than with other Africans like the (SE African) Bantus. This is true since 3000 years ago. Genetic studies detects a mixed ancestry for the tribes who inhabit Somalia and Ethiopia. You cannot deny the mixed heritage of these people over the last 3000 years. Of course i'm not talking about the south of east Africa which is [b]predominantly[/b]Bantu. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 13 November 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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