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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] Obenga can be discarded for the simple fact alone that it is impossible for all these populations/linguistic units (Nilo-Saharan, Afrasan, Niger Congo) to split off in the terminal pleistocene (if I'm not misunderstanding Amun). Obenga supporters will run into so many problems defending this supposedly >10kya phylum, that they might as well just say upfront say that they're throwing all the multi-disciplinary data that informs African Anthropology in the wind, that in some way shape or form implies coalescence ages larger than >10kya coalescence dates for the populations included within Negro-Egyptien (which is basically all multi-disciplinary data). Even if I'm misunderstanding Amun where the age of Negro-Egyptian is concerned (i.e., that Obenga's proposition for this clade is older), its a known fact that modern linguistic phyla don't go back much further than the Terminal Pleistocene. Its a wrap. [/qb][/QUOTE]The same argument is used by linguists who doubt the Afro-Asiatic phylum debunked recently by Obenga since it would be much older than the Indo-European phylum. Suffice to say that this is only rule of the thumb, a language can change at a slower (or faster rates) than others also the dating of Negro-Egyptian is placed by Obenga before 10kya, thus possibly at the same period where some people placed the debunked Afro-Asiatic phylum (also placed before 10kya). Obviously comparison among the debunked Afroasiatic phylum was also complicated by long-term language contacts and borrowing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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