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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] [QUOTE][i]Apart from their literal meaning, inscriptions can yield information in the two largely independent areas of language and script. [b]All those from Eritrea and northern Ethiopia attributed to the first millennium bc are in South Semitic languages, but they are not linguistically identical[/b]. Unfortunately, however, many inscriptions are so short or fragmentary that their linguistic affinities cannot be determined with any confidence. [b]**A few** (designated group I by A. J. Drewes 1962: 97) are in Sabaean[/b], linguistically indistinguishable from southern Arabian inscriptions. [b]True Sabaean inscriptions in the northern Horn are very few[/b], totalling only some 40 words, half of which are personal names. [b]The other inscriptions that are linguistically diagnostic, group II, show signs of specifically African linguistic forms; their language may be designated ‘Old Ethiopic’ or ‘Proto-Ge'ez’ (Schneider 1976b), and several of the personal names that they contain are not attested from southern Arabia (Drewes 1998-9). Palaeographically, it may be shown that the group I inscriptions are not the earliest ones (Schneider 1976a)[/b][/i].[/QUOTE]---David W. Phillipson (2010) The First Millennium bc in the Highlands of Northern Ethiopia and South–Central Eritrea: A Reassessment of Cultural and Political Development. African Archaeological Review Volume 26, Number 4, 257-274. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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