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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] In a map accompanying his article [i]Western African Languages in Historical Perspective[/i], [b]Kay Williamson[/b] sees proto-Tamazight (the first "Berber" language) 1. originating in the Gharb Darfur region of Sudan 8kya 2. spreading from there to _a. the Dongola Reach/3rd cataract Tmhhw and to _b. the Air-Hoggar region 3. before proto-North Tamazight developed 4. and went to _a. the Maghreb and then eastward to __* Rebu/Libou and 5. proto-Zenaga left Air/Adrar des Ifores for _a. the Tagant (southern Mauritania). ================================ [b]SIDEBAR[/b] [IMG]http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/00images/map_brb.gif[/IMG] [b]NOTE:[/b] [i]this isn't the map from the article but Taureg corresponds to Air-Hoggar Air/Adrar regions, Atlas/Zenati/Nefusi corresponds to the Maghreb, Siwi roughly corresponds to Rebu/Libou, and Zenaga corresponds to the Tagant.[/i] ================================= In light of this and the current discussions on Imazighen and going back to the "Berber" vs Black dichotomy, it seems that [b]attributing Berber only to the people of the northern littoral at the expense of northern Saharans, and others between the Sahara and the Atlas, is an historical falsehood[/b] until we enter times of "post-Roman Africa" and maybe even after the Islamic invasions. Spread of language family speakers is based on archaeology (the industrial tool kits, food "production," etc.), the language family proto-lexicon (vocabulary that appears widely across divergent branches of the family indicating great age of first use), and regional climate over the millenia. From this type of material is derived what seems to be dates and regions of habitation of proto-Tamazight, proto-NiloSaharan, and proto-MandeCongo speakers in Western Africa. [b]Neolithic and early historic "Berber" finds, [i]250 or more miles south of the Mediterranean[/i], could well have been left by black or coloured [i]peoples who spoke "Berber" before it reached the Maghreb[/i].[/b] In other words the [i]Leukaethiopes Melanogaetuli Nigritae Western Ethiopians (Hesperii) Pharusii Icthyophagi Aethiopes[/i] etc., and their modern descendents still there in the same vast "Saharan" area [b]are just as much [i]"Berber"[/i] as anybody else[/b], and if Williamson (based on Behrens) is right, even more so as they are remnants of the proto-North Tamazight speakers or so at least the Haritin donating to genetic tests seem to infer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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