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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Since 2009 Ehret saw Asian origins for Semitic. Ehret is no longer of the opinion that Semitic developed anywhere in continental Africa. See [b] Kitchen A, [URL=http://www.]Ehret C[/URL], Assefa S, Mulligan CJ[/b][i] Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East[/i] Proc Biol Sci. 2009 Apr 29 From the abstract:[i] Our statistical tests of alternative Semitic histories support an initial divergence of Akkadian from ancestral Semitic over competing hypotheses (e.g. an African origin of Semitic). We estimate an [URL=http://www.]Early Bronze Age origin for Semitic approximately 5750 years ago in the Levant[/URL], and further propose that contemporary Ethiosemitic languages of Africa reflect a single introduction of early [URL=http://www.]Ethiosemitic from southern Arabia[/URL] approximately 2800 years ago.[/i] [QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [qb] Now Ehret and others argue that Semitic has its roots in East Africa. . . . . So why not just assign a new name to all those Afrasian languages reflecting their purely African origins? [/qb][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by L': [qb] ^I thought "Afrasan" was another name given [/qb][/QUOTE]Yea, I'm not exactly sure why he switched back to using 'Afrasian' in this piece (probably an unconscious habit) as he is the main advocate for taking "Asia" out of the name. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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