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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by al~Takruri: This is slightly off topic, but what about CAMPBELL-DUNN's works being mostly bogus linguistics?[/QUOTE]The aim of the author (Campbell-Dunn) is to demonstrate a genetic linguistic relationship between Niger-Congo Languages (Bantu, Wolof, Fulani, Mande, Yoruba, Akan, etc.) and Etruscan, the language of the mysterious culture of a great part of modern Italy (ca 1200 BC-550) prior to the rise of the Romans and their language, Latin. The Etruscan language is considered as an isolate by mainstream scholarship (BONFANTE 2002). However, just like for other linguistic or phenotypic "isolates" such as Basque language in Europe or Fulani people in West Africa, egregiously fanciful theories have been asserted by irresponsible scholars regarding their origins. For Etruscan, one could for example cite GUIGNARD (1964), Comment j'ai déchiffré la langue étrusque, « Wie habe ich die etruskische Sprache entziffert. How I deciphered the Etruscan language ». Grammaire comparée des langues basque, étrusque et islandaise, self-edited (sic), et GUIGNARD (1992), Les clefs de décodage de la langue étrusque : les condensateurs électriques étrusques...; la colonisation étrusque du Japon (=the keys of decoding of the Etruscan language : Etruscan electrical capacitors (sic), the Etruscan colonization of Japan). Needless to say that to challenge the mainstream opinion that Etruscan is an isolate, CAMPBELL-DUNN will have to provide substantial evidence similar to that that can be found between languages considered by mainstream scholarship as related, e.g. Afro-Asiatic (Ancient Egyptian, Berber, Semitic, Cushitic, Chadic, Omotic) or Indo-European (Romance, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Celtic, etc) languages. In our opinion, CAMPBELL-DUNN fails to do so. To his credit though, unlike some pseudo-comparative linguists, CAMPBELL-DUNN has the advantage of using reconstructed forms, namely that of WESTERMANN (1927) and not randomly found Niger-Congo linguistic elements to compare them with Etruscan. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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