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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Barachit: [qb] http://www.ankhonline.com/ankh_num_16/ankh_16_t_obenga_ancient%20egyptian%20and%20modern%20yoruba.pdf [/qb][/QUOTE]This is a very interesting 2007 article by Obenga. It's my first time reading it so thank you for posting it (I'm familiar with Obenga works since I have read some of his books including [i]Origine commune de l'egyptien ancien, du copte et des langues negro-africaines modernes[/i] ) [b]Beyond the lexical and various linguistic similarities between various African languages including Ancient Egyptians and Kushite languages. What is important to understand is how they are related to each others. Their language genealogy. This is what has historical repercussions.[/b] It's important to understand, as I stated above, that according to Obenga's research. Yoruba, Akan, Dinka, etc are NOT (yes I said NOT) descendants of Ancient Egyptians. Modern African languages are not descendants of Ancient Egyptians or the Kushite languages. It's the Ancient Egyptian language, the Kushite language, as well as modern African language which are descendant of a common language. Thus of a common population. We can call maybe proto-Egypto-African. For example look at this partial language tree taken from the Obenga document you just posted a link to: [IMG]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y421/amunratheultimate2/Misc2/Egypto-Africancommonancestorlanguage_zps040ed8b8.png[/IMG] What we learn above is that Niger-Congo languages like Yoruba, Wolof and Akan are [b]NOT[/b] descendants of Ancient Egyptians. We can see that Niger-Congo languages along with Cushitic and Chadic language are descendant of a common ancestor language. Called here Egypto-African Common Stock. [b]It means there was probably at some ancient time a group of people who spoke a common language we can call proto-Egypto-African, who then migrated away in different direction (possibly still in the same region at first), creating that way language differentiations.[/b] Ehret doesn't go as far as finding a common Egypto-African ancestor language, but considering that all African languages spoken today originated in the same region, is a strong clue that they may derive from the same common language and population before migrating away in other regions of Africa. I could say the language of the E-P2 haplogroup carriers (even if it includes A carriers too). Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo language are also already said to be related to each other through the Kongo-Saharan language family proposed by some linguists (google search 'Kongo-Saharan'). According to this theory, and combined with Obenga's African language classification, you could change in the graph above Niger-Congo for Kongo-Saharan. So modern African populations and tribes are NOT descendants of the Ancient Egyptian language or the Kushite language. It's AEians, the Kushite language and modern African languages which are all equally descendants of a common ancestor language. This has historical implication. This is a more elaborate language classification table from Obenga (Negro-Egyptian is the same thing as Egypto-African): http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6195/tableaunegroegyptienthe.png (the image is big so I won't post it) More can be read about it here: http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008390;p=1 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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