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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl: [QB] Mystery Solver said: [QUOTE] . . . However, within Africa this diversity has virtually disappeared, both linguistically and phenotypically.[/QUOTE][b]False. Africans overall are the most diverse people on the planet. You can't be familiar with Africans, and proclaim that they aren't phenotypically or linguistically diverse notwithstanding close relationships.[/b] Genetically you are right. Blench's point is that, given the much deeper time depth of human habitation of Africa compared to South America and/or Papua, one should see much more variation in African languages than is actually found. Items like isolate languages, and a much greater lexical difference, On the other hand African languages have a very diverse phonological, tonal, and consonantal diversity. Both of these can be explained, according to Blench, by 1) a fairly recent large expansion of a language phylum which explains the few isolates and the existence of just a few phyla. and 2) The absorption and borrowing from the numerous languages it overran which would provide the tonal, consonantal and morphological variation found. I think a good analogy of what Blench's hypothesis occurring 20-30 KYA is the much more recent explosion of Bantu languages out of Cameroon and across Africa. The rest of your comments seem to me to be restatements of Blench's quote in different words, in that you emphasize the extent and relatively recent contact with each other of African languages. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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