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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] For one it's important to understand that language change with times. Usually in linguistic when a language become mutually intelligible with one of its earlier form we give it a different name. In comparative linguistic, we need to use current form (current languages) and compare it with earlier form (ancient language) and discover not only similarity but also progressive steps. Obenga does a great job at it in his book. Which is a bit of a heavy reading for non-linguist unlike many of his very good books about African history and culture. The common origin of Ancient Kemites and modern African languages are based on a common idiom from phonology, phonetics, morphology, grammar, semantics and lexicography. Here I will just restrict myself to lexicography. The book (obviously) cover all those aspects in depth. So languages change with time for example here's some English words inspired by the old Norse language. Bug = bukr (insect within tree trunks) Bylaw = Bylog (by=village, log-law, village-law) want = vanta (="to lack") We can see that the pronunciations, letters, are changing with time. Sometime whole words are completely changed. The language spoken by English people 3000 years ago, english's ancestors, is not understandable for modern english people. Here's a site with common Indo-Europeans words: http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/indoeuro.asp [b]Some words are similar other words are somewhat similar while some words are completely different but all those languages share a common origin.[/b] Another site showing part of the Indo-European language family tree: http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320Hist&Civ/slides/07ie/germaniclanguages.jpg Here's a image showing numerals in different Bantu language. [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/ComparativeBantuNumerals.jpg[/IMG] We can see for example that 't' in tatu can become 'r' 's' or 'l' in different Bantu sub-languages, while it stays 't' in others. Obviously all those languages are related and share a common origin that's why we call them Bantu languages. Here is a couple of examples from Obenga's book called: Origine commune de l'égyptien ancien, du copte et des langues négro-africaines modernes – Introduction à la linguistique historique africaine. The language is french so you may need to use google translate or similar sites to understand what is written. Boeuf = Beef [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/CommonOrigin03.jpg[/IMG] Dire, Parler, Raconter = Say, Talk, Tell [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/CommonOrigin01.jpg[/IMG] Belier, Mouton = Ram, Sheep [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/CommonOriginofAfricanandAncientEgyptianlanguages04.jpg[/IMG] Belier, Mouton = Ram, Sheep [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/CommonOriginofAfricanandAncientEgyptianlanguages06.jpg[/IMG] Palmier = Palm Tree [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/CommonOriginofAfricanandAncientEgyptianlanguages09.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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