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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] supercar quote: __________________________________________________________________ …something which Rilly has already undertaken, which you ridiculed him for thinking about doing, just because early on, prior to adopting Egyptic scripts, there is no available evidence on Kushitic text…and this, notwithstanding that you claim the Kushites never abandoned their native tongue, but just wrote it in foreign texts. One doesn’t have to be a linguistic genius to see what is wrong with this picture. _________________________________________________________ There is nothing wrong with this picture. Rilly's hypothesis that Meroitic can be read by reconstructing the proto-language is not supported by the evidence. Rilly claims that Meroitic is Nilo-Saharan. He claims that this is supported by comparing the Proto-Nilo-Saharan to Meroitic, because the people living in Kush today are remnants of the Meroites. This theory is not supported by the historical and linguistic evidence we have concerning the linguistic and political history of Kush. We must reject Rilly's theory because ,we have no evidence that 1) Proto-Nilo-Saharan, as constructed by Rilly was ever spoken by a living being; 2) we have evidence that the Noba/Nubians entered Nubia long after the Kushites had founded Napatan and Meroitic civilizations, so eventhough they live in Nubia today, they are not representative of Kushite people who they were often in conflict with; 3) Egyptian documents make it clear that the Blymmes also entered the area after the founding of Napatan and Meroitic civilization, so even if some people claim that the Beja=Blymmes this is conjecture. Consequently, even if Beja= Blymmes, they donot represent the Kushite people who founded the Napata and Meroe civilizations, because both the Noba and Blymmes entered Kush after its founding. This makes it clear that although Rilly's evidence looked promising, the data presented in support of the hypothesis fails to support his claim. supercar quote: _______________________________________________________________ So now, the question that arises is; when were the foreigners who developed Tocharian text introduced to the different phases of Egyptic text, the influence of which is pretty obvious in Meroitic, and now hence, Tocharian? _____________________________________________________________ They did not have to become familiar with any of the Egyptian forms of writing. The Meroites just adopted the Tokharian language to write their inscriptions. This was not too difficult because many of the Meroitic signs are similar to the Kharosthi signs, the Kushana used to write Tokharian. [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/lit7.gif[/IMG] .. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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