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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Yom: ^^^ So what's EthioSemitic since it's word is Tsehay? Does it make it unrelated to all of those languages? You can't base your classification on one word.[/QUOTE]But you can *use* one word to suggest or deny any relationship you want in between any langauges you choose. That's why this 'selective word comparison' method - which has such great 'intuitive' appeal to the laymen, is not scientifically valid. Look at a map of the logical geographic expanse of Afro-Asiatic. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/Afro-Asiatic.png/300px-Afro-Asiatic.png[/IMG] Now superimpose upon upon this and imaginery map of Winters - Nigerian - Dravidian - Japanese language family. As for Obenga - he was primarily and rightly concerned with debunking the Hamito-Semito mythology which at it's height attempted to reduce mdw ntr and hence Kemet to a sub-division of of the semitic world. He wanted to show that mdw ntr was related to other African languages and *not* to semitic and berber - and therefore to the languages of non-Blacks. Given that linguists now root the cushitic division at the base of Afrisan language with the Semitic and Berber divisions being the youngest - this argument is no longer necessary and in fact it *backfires*. Here is why: The orignal intent is to show that mdw ntr is African. But this is today nearly universally acknolwedged. So by arguing that Berber and Semitic are *unrelated* to other Afrisan languages, you simply end up moving African languages including Ethio-semitic and *all* of the Berber languages out of Africa. When you do this you re-enable Eurocentric back-migration mythology all over again. It's critically important to keep up with current scholarship. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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