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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [qb] [QUOTE]if modern humans did indeed come out of Africa, and they already had some form of language, then the languages of Africa ought to be considerably more diverse than those in Papua or South America.[/QUOTE]Blench has not demonstrated that African languages are less diverse than those of New Guinea. For example there are less than 1000 languages on the various islands of New Guinea, but there are over 1500 in the Niger Congo family alone, and several hundred in the Afrisan and Nilo Saharan family respectively. Also, I don't see what relative percentile of so called isolate languages would tell us, other than the relative number of small populations who have lived in recent isolation from one another? Can you explain better? And I completely fail to see how any of this supports the notion of Afrisan or NiloSaharn coming from somewhere in "Asia" ? ? Of course, you've pointed out that Blench doesn't *exactly* claim this or anything very specific, and well he shouldn't since he is speculating more than he is actually -assessing- evidence. [QUOTE]rasol asks: have you identified actual [eurasian] population sources for underived M9,M45, and M207?[/QUOTE]^ Pls. forgive the redundancy if you answered earlier. Thanks. [/qb][/QUOTE]We keep talking past each other. Blench, as I have pointed out is not necessarily making a global claim about the diversity of Papuan vs African languages. Read my recent previous posts for Blench's points about the number of phyla,isolates and the African diversity within phyla of phonology and morphology compared to South america, papua etc. Blench is [b]NOT[/b] claiming that Afroasiatic or Nilo-Saharan comefrom Asia. All the African phyla have their origin and expansion in Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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