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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] According to [i]Golden Age of the Moors[/i] contributing author and EgyptSearch poster Dana Reynolds-Marniche Garama/Djerma means 'place of the Gara' in Teda- Kanuri dialects. She is also of the opinion that the Garamantes are so named by the Greco-Latins after their later capital city Garama/Djerma. Gabriel Camps finds the meaning of Garamantes in the 'Berber' languages. [QUOTE] Le nom même des Garamantes signifierait « les gens des maisons ». La racine arhrham , « maison, construction », est une racine pan-berbère. Les nombreuses ruines de l'oued El-Agial témoignent en faveur de cette hypothèse.[/QUOTE]In his view the root [i]arhrham[/i], which is in all 'Berber' dialects is the etymology for Garama. The root is supposed to mean house(s) or building(s). All reasonable points should be developed and looked into though no one should be forcibly swayed to adopt any conclusion they feel is less tenable. I bring supporting evidence and reasoning for Garamante <-- Garama <-- Garamas which tends to negate that mante is any integral factor of Garamante since both Garamas and Garama, the native words, have [i]ma[/i] but lack mante backing the idea that [i]nte[/i] was tacked onto Garama by the Greco-Latins. Graves leads us to suppose Garamantes originally spoke either a Cushite and/or 'Berber' language which sometime after the 2nd century Lemta subjection they abandoned for a language spoken in the Upper Niger Valley where they found refuge. He thinks the last remnant of the Garamante are still found in a village named Koromantse. That may be but I find no place Koromantse in eastern Guinea or south Mali. I can find Koromantee, a habitation and ethny of Akan speakers in Ghana somewhere near the Prah river. Koromante is alternatively spelled Acromanti. BTW Chris Ehret says it's unknown what Garamantes spoke but limits it to either Teda or Tamasheq lects. [QUOTE][i]One of the interesting questions to be resolved is whether the language of the Garamantes was a Berber tongue or an early form of Tibu, a Saharo-Sahelian language spoken then as now in the adjacent Tibesti Mountains just south of the Fezzan.[/i] Civilizations of Africa p.222[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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