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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Asar Imhotep: [QB] At Amen-Ra, at this point I would just be repeating myself. There is a difference between "seeming highly speculative" and being highly speculative. He made that comment early on in the text in order to let the evidence from that point on support the hypothesis. That's what a scientific method allows: it allows you to make predictions which are eked out through experimentation (the comparative method). Even if you have the book, if you don't understand comparative linguistics, you won't understand the argument. AGAIN, why I gave you a basic intro so you can ask better questions. Your questions are not grounded in an understanding of comparative linguistics. THat's why you say stuff like: [QUOTE] What Mboli does is equivalent to say there's many phases within proto-Niger-Congo or proto-indo-european even if all modern representatives are descendant from the latest phase. [/QUOTE]What descendants of the "last phase" are you talking about? Again, as I explained in the earlier posts, his argument is that the Proto-Negro-Egyptian grouping is a group that split into two languages. These two languages ended up meeting and converging, sharing vocabulary and the like because they lived in the same area (could be the Sahara for all we know). From there two distinct branches formed (bere and beer) which became the languages you see in the chart. These individual languages, according to Mboli, did not originate as individual languages at the Proto-Negro-Egyptian stage. Again, here is your test, and only address this issue here, from Heine & Nurse (2000: 18), the following phases of Niger-Congo are given: Proto-Niger-Congo Proto-Mande-Atlantic-Congo Proto-Ijo-Congo Proto-Dogon-Congo Proto-Volto-Congo Proto-Benue-Congo East Benue-Congo Bantoid-Cross Bantoid Bantu Using your logic, tell us why Mboli cannot have 4 phases of Negro-Egyptian, but these authors can have at least 10 phases of Niger-Congo leading up to the Bantu languages? What is the difference between Negro-Egyptian-Post-Classic, and Proto-Ijo-Congo, for example? Don't let labels fool you. If you knew historical linguistics, you would not get fooled by labels. What is the difference. And for the record, again, Negro-Egyptian-Post-Classic is a reconstructed stage, just like Proto-Dogon-Congo, for example. I await. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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