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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] Try actually reading the study, rather than making up fairy tale stories from cartoon, dumbass! Here is material from the said authors: "Kitchen A, Ehret C, Assefa S, Mulligan CJ. Department of Anthropology, PO Box 103610, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-3610, USA. The evolution of languages provides a unique opportunity to study human population history. The origin of Semitic and the nature of dispersals by Semitic-speaking populations are of great importance to our understanding of the ancient history of the Middle East and Horn of Africa. Semitic populations are associated with the oldest written languages and urban civilizations in the region, which gave rise to some of the world's first major religious and literary traditions. In this study, we employ Bayesian computational phylogenetic techniques recently developed in evolutionary biology to analyse Semitic lexical data by modelling language evolution and explicitly testing alternative hypotheses of Semitic history. We implement a relaxed linguistic clock to date language divergences and use epigraphic evidence for the sampling dates of extinct Semitic languages to calibrate the rate of language evolution. Our statistical tests of alternative Semitic histories support an initial divergence of Akkadian from ancestral Semitic over competing hypotheses (e.g. an African origin of Semitic). We estimate an Early Bronze Age origin for Semitic approximately 5750 years ago in the Levant, and further propose that contemporary Ethiosemitic languages of Africa reflect a single introduction of [b]early Ethiosemitic from southern Arabia approximately 2800 years ago[/b]." Folks, that numbhead swenet says this above is talking about "passing through somewhere", as opposed to the obvious therein...and the numbnut thinks this is clear evidence that he/she/it is in a position to "school" someone else on what is being said. Who else thinks like this? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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