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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Asar Imhotep: [qb] I have read the abstracts and downloaded their papers and am in communication with many of the people involved in the project. "Working" on something is not the same as "having it done." As I stated in an earlier posts, Africanists make a phylum and language family first, THEN looks for the evidence to support it. They are the "Creationists" of linguistics. This is not the practice of the vast majority of comparative linguists around the world. The reason why Afro-Asiatic fails is because they came up with the phylum before coming up with the criteria and characteristics for the inclusion of the phylum. That's not scientific. Thus, by the same criteria, N-C doesn't exist either. They are trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. And I must keep reminding the readers, Dr. Winters claimed to have reconstructed Niger-Congo, even his "Proto-Saharan," but using language groupings which themselves have not been established. But, he cannot provide an extensive work where he did these reconstructions, only scattered articles. With all due respect to our elder, his work is not comparable to Mboli's under discussion. Mboli's builds off of Obenga's, but does not fall into the trap Obenga did in his 1993 work. However, Obenga's _L'égyptien pharaonique: une langue négro-africaine_ is more in alignment with Mboli's (2010) text. [/qb][/QUOTE]Linguist are not creationist. You discover language families via comparative linguistics. LOL you're funny you claim I have not done my home work on Proto-Saharan which is false. It does not take a book length manuscript to demonstrate a genetic relationship.Here is my major article on Proto-Saharan languages which I call Bafsudralam languages, is below: [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolan4.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang5.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://olmec98.net/protolang7.jpg[/IMG] Asar you don’t understand linguistics. This is why you accept Mboli’s work without any reservation. You need to learn more about linguistics because you continue to believe that a Language Family Tree, is representing phases in a language family instead of branches like a tree. I would recommend you read Stuart C. Poole, An Introduction to Linguistics, many of my students in my linguistics course at Saint Xavier University found the book informative. You have no knowledge of Comparative Linguistics as indicated by the fact that you don’t even recognize what a Family tree is and historical linguistics. The Best book in this genre is Robert Lord’s, Comparative Linguistics. This book is great because it teaches you how to do comparative linguistics –and includes lessons with answer that can guide you in conducting comparative linguistic research. Also you need to get a good dictionary of linguistics so you can learn the meanings of many linguistic terms you appear not to understand. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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