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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] according to an un sourced statement from a wikipepdia article; "Some scholars believe that Yemen remains the only region in the world that is exclusively Semitic, meaning that Yemen historically did not have any non–Semitic-speaking people" [/qb][/QUOTE]I question the accuracy of that unsourced statement since just because an area has exclusively speakers of a language for a long time does not mean no other languages existed there or that the language spoken there now has always been there.[/qb][/QUOTE]One thing I forgot to add was evidence to the contrary-- that there were indeed non-Semitic languages spoken in Yemen! "[i]"There is no real doubt that the ancestors of both epigraphic (ESA) and modernn South Arabian (MSA) were languages spoken in the Near East rather than Ethiopia. But the date and processes whereby the speakers of these languages migrated and diversified are unknown. Apart from inscriptions that can be read, some contain evidence for completely unknown languages co-existing with ESA. Beeston (1981: 181) cites an inscription from Marib which begins in Sabaean [b]but then switches to an unknown language. He mentions several other texts which have similar morphology (a final –k suffix) and which may represent an unknown non-Semitic language (or possibly a Nilo-Saharan language such as Kunama, for which such a feature would be typical).[/b][/i]" Blench (2010). 'The Semiticisation of the Arabian Peninsula and the problem of its reflection in the archaeological record' The above study was presented by Takruri in a thread [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=004413]here[/URL] and is an excellent source of discussion for origins of Semitic languages and how Semitic came to dominate Arabia. I should also mention Greco-Roman writings like 'Periplus of the Eritrean Sea' and authors like Pliny who mentioned a people in Yemen who spoke a language different from the Sabaeans and whose speech sounded like bats squeaking or birds chirping. They also say such languages were spoken across the Red Sea in modern Sudan. So obviously there were once other languages besides Semitic which were spoken in Yemen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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