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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [qb] The existence of the language family itself is about as soundly based as is the existence of any other language family. Linguists debate the internal infrastructure and which languages do or do not belong, but they don't deny that said relationships exist. No evidences have been provided to the contrary, polemics notwithstanding. [/qb][/QUOTE] :o *sigh* Indeed, some folks just don't get it Rasol. No one here, not even I, denied that certain relations exist between language families, but that does not in anyway refute the existence of the language families themselves. You are correct that Kemson contradicts himself when even [i]he[/i] uses the established classifications like 'Bantu' and 'Semitic'-- both language groups with the former part of Niger-Congo and the latter Afrasian. Of course language does not say much about the people who speak it. Thus non-black even racist Arabs of Western Asia speak Semitic (Afrasian) languages that originated in Africa. While most Indo-European languages are not spoken by whites but by brown and even black peoples of India! What's funny is that while you have radical Afrocentrics like Kemson who are trying to argue for a single black African language phylum, you don't hear [i]anything[/i] about Eurocentrics trying to do the same. Many like to point out Indo-European which is the largest and pervasive phylum in Europe, but it is not the only one, and there are others like Uralic. And so while folks like Kemson continue to deny actual scientific analysis of languages The Euros sit back and laugh at them. They do not realize that the number of linguistic lineages coincide to the age of populations. The older the population, the greater linguistic diversity it has. Africa is more ancient than Europe so of course it has more language phylums than Europe has. It once had even more in the past but eventually the 4 phyla became dominant. In the meantime Kemson, I seriously hope you don't believe in Clyde's pseudo-linguistic classification of a Mande-Dravidian phylum. :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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