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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] supercar: _____________________________________________________________ Non-sequitur, since reference was made about “proto”- North east Sudanic/Nilo-Saharan language groups. Are you on the one hand, suggesting that Kushitic language was written in Egypt and later some other foreign language, prior to available indicators of when they adopted writing, but that on the other, it didn’t exist, since there is no textual evidence to show that the language itself existed prior to the adoption of writing? ________________________________________________________ I am say that the Napatans and Meroites wrote in Egyptian--not their own language. supercar ___________________________________________________________ for example names of persons and gods, can help towards clarifying the grammatical nature and the semantic field of the unknown words. Most of the time, all these elements are insufficient. But in a few cases, a meaning can be suggested for new words and be confirmed in various inscriptions. Although very slow, this approach recently provided new translations. A set of thirtynine purely Meroitic basic words was finally produced, not including of course too specific words such as « prince » or « great priest », which are useless for comparative purpose. _____________________________________________________________________ This is pure fantansy. If people were unable to find cognate Sudanic/Nubia etc., terms and agreed upon Meroitic terms, how can Rilly invent 39 new terms? :confused: ...... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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