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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] While I don't recall finalizing that as my official opinion, I do remember considering that to be a distinct possibility based on several factors, namely the fact that Ehret's (2010) loan word table for Nilo-saharan items borrowed into Egyptian, seem to all center on the Neolithic industries that the Badarians pioneered, namely animal husbandry. I also considered the dates he gave for when these loan words were introduced and the geographic distribution of Nilo-saharan speakers west of the Nile. What Truthcentric mentions is also a consideration. I'd more cautiously say that either the Badarians were Nilo-Saharan-speakers or they were among the first to incorporate Nilo-Saharan agricultural terms into their (presumably Afrasan) lexicon. I also think Ancient Egyptian was probably a lingua franca based on Ehret's notes concerning evidence of intense bilingualism around this time in the lower Nile valley (among other considerations like the tale of Sinuhe and Clyde's observation of the use of different "cursive" scripts).. the only thing that we can be sure about is that the Naqadans were definitely Egyptian-speakers and if the Qustul incense burner truly depicts proto-hieroglyphs, we can be sure that at least a segment of the A-group were Egyptian-speakers as well. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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