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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] Granted, the base of the new PIE terms relating to a agro-pastoral and mining lifestyle for the Indo-European (IE) speakers are probably the result of IE people making African terms confrom to IE languages, the majority of proto-African terms will usually be CVC or CVCV in structure, not CCVC which is a characteristic of IE languages. I will admit that I misread *h2gʰʷno- ou *h3gʰʷno-, as Negro-Egyptian, when they are really Proto-Indo-European (PIE). But I will not retract my contention that Mboli is trying to make African proto-words agree with PIE culture terms. Mboli spends most of his time trying to make Proto-African/Negro-Egyptian terms agree with PIE constructions for the same word. A good example is the alledged proto-term 'cattle,cow':[b] *ŋʷ-keŋʷe[/b], which he says “corresponds to the Bantu word nguni "cattle," for which the Amazulu and kin are named (the nguni tribes)”. In historical linguistics and the reconstruction of proto-terms we apply the rule of Occam's Razor , the preference for simplicity in the scientific method of constructing proto-languages. If we apply Occam’s Razor to Mboli’s reconstruction of the proto-term *ŋʷ-keŋʷe « cattle », we find that it does not truly reflect the probable Proto-Bantu word for ‘cattle,cow’. Below are terms for ‘cow,cattle’. [list] [*]Word.......Language [*]‘engombe’ Shiyeyi ‘ŋombe’ Bemba ‘ngombo’ Bobangi ‘ngombo’ Bobangi (Congo) ‘ngombe’ Kikuyu (Kenya) ‘ng'ombe’ Swahili (Kenya & East Africa) ‘xaafu’ Bukusu (Kenya) ‘inkomazi’ Zulu (South Africa) ‘ongombe’ Kwanyama ‘ngombo’ Lingala ‘omgombe’ Mbundu ‘nkomo’ Ndebele ‘nbogoma’ Nyamwezi ‘inombe’ Xhosa ‘mombe’ Shona ‘ngoomba’ Yaka [/list] In eyeballing the Bantu word for ‘cow,cattle’ notice they are CVC(C)V in structure. The initial nasal consonant is followed by vowel consonant and vowel again: CVC. Thus we have[b] ŋ+omb+ e/a/ó[/b]=*ŋomb- In the Bantu languages we often find an initial nasal consonant / ŋ /. This syllabic nasal consonant in Bantu languages is usually attached to human and animal animate classes. This means that the actual root word for ‘cow,cattle’ in the Bantu languages is *-omb -( + e/a/ó). Even though Mboli recognizes that / ŋ- / is the nasal affix, in his reconstruction of[b] *ŋʷ-keŋʷe[/b], this word has nothing to do with either [i][b]nguni [/b][/i], and definitely not [b][i] ngombe[/b][/i]. In fact the addition of element /keŋʷe/ to / ŋ / is not supported by the words [i][b]nguni [/b][/i], or [b][i] ngombe[/b][/i]. If you apply the rule of Occam's Razor, any researcher would see that the proto-Bantu term for ‘cattle,cow’ was / *ŋ-omb-/ (VCCV in structure) not *ŋʷ-keŋʷe. It is this need for Mboli, to find correspondence(s) between Proto-African terms and PIE that make me suspect the reliability and validity of his research. Mboli should not care about making his reconstructions of proto-Negro-Egyptian conform to PIE. They should be made pursuant to African sound laws. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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