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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [qb] Moreover, there is no way you can read an ancient language using a Proto-Language. That is because a proto-language is a theorectical assumption which can never be proven because we don't have documented examples of the language to confirm our reconstructions. . [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't know why you keep saying this. It seems very logical to try to read an ancient language we don't know by using modern descendant languages from the same family (proto-NES in this case). For example, if all descendant proto-NES languages have the word ita (or a cognate word to ita) meaning sky, it's highly possible that if you find the word ita in Meroitic it may also means sky too. The analysis of the context where the word ita appears in meroitic text may help determine if ita also means sky in Meroitic. Is that what you say is impossible to do? It seems very logical and possible to me. I didn't read Rilly's french book, but his english book and papers certainly didn't show, using Meroitic text, how he arrives to his conclusions regarding the definition of words. He just state them as facts stipulating his french books goes in more depth. [/qb][/QUOTE]Please show one ancient language deciphered using a proto-language. You wrote [QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [qb]From the book [i]The Meroitic Language and Writing System By Rilly and Voogt[/i] It's written clearly: Nubian people (proto-Nubian) didn't reached the Nile prior to the end of the Meroitic Kingdom in the third century AD [/qb][/QUOTE]Your theory fails on three points. Firstly, it has been proven repeatedly that Meroitic and Nubian are not related. Secondly, Meroites were writing Meroitic documents for 400 years before Nubians came into the region. Finally, Nubians never joined the Meroite Nation. Please denote any ancient language deciphered using a proto-language. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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