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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [i]"Simply put, the Afrasian language family, to which both ancient Egyptian and Semitic languages belong, originated in Africa. The historical linguistic evidence is overwhelming on this point. Within the continent the most probable origin areas of the family lay well to the south, in the Horn of Africa or in the Red Sea Hills immediately north of the Horn. The communities that brought the earliest ancestral forms of ancient Egyptian into Egypt, before the age of agriculture, most probably came from the Red Sea Hills region; and the earliest speakers of Semitic had a northeastern African background as well. These are not new historical conclusions. They have been generally accepted among the linguists of the African language families for more than fifty years. It is long past time for historians or, for that matter, other scholars, such as geneticists, whose work bears on historical scholarship, to begin to take full account of this information."[/i] Ehret, Christopher. (2011) History and the Testimony of Language. University of California Press. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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