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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] ^^ This drivel by Djehuti is completely baseless. For one, which is the most important thing, it's not base on any linguistic arguments; just fluff and emotions. I don't think Djehuti or his companion Swenet even read Obenga's work or other such books cited above. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^ Correct. The problem with Obenga and other Africanist scholars like him is that in their hellbent approach to show commonalities and relations between the various cultures of Africa, especially Egypt, they propose all sorts of 'Pan-African' language phyla. [/QUOTE]That's rich for somebody who's hell bent on showing us commonalities between Africans and Semites [aka the Hamito-Semitic/Afro-Asiatic language family]. [QUOTE] Problem is Indo-European does NOT comprise [i]all[/i] the languages of Europe nor is a Pan-African phylum even necessary to demonstrate the various features common the cultures and languages of the African continent. [/QUOTE]For one,the Negro-Egyptian phylum like the Indo-European phylum doesn't comprise ALL the languages of Africa either. African languages such as Berber languages are not included, nor are the Khoisan African languages or African languages such as Ge'ez or Amharic. So that point is moot, even if it was moot to begin with since it's not based on any linguistic arguments. [QUOTE] By constructing some false 'Pan-African' phylum, all they are doing is reducing the linguistic and cultural diversity of Africa which is a much larger continent with much older (the oldest) populations. [/QUOTE]That's ridiculous. Obenga's Negro-Egyptian phylum like the Indo-European phylum was a language spoken by African people a very long time ago. Since then, African languages had time to evolve into their current diversity. For example, the Indo-European phylum is comprised of: Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi, and Urdu. Language such as English, Urdu, Russian and Italian are considered to be from the same family! It doesn't mean that it's not diverse. They are just genetically related from a long time ago. Similar case with African languages such as Bantu languages (already proven to be related), Ancient Egyptian, Yoruba, Kanuri, Afar, Dogon, Wolof which are genetically related. It doesn't negate their diversity in any way since they had a lot of time to evolve into their current form since the Negro-Egyptian/Afro-Egyptian days. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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