It would perhaps be right to say that his views are conservative except where they contradict his own data. What Y said. 2009: Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. * But there arent. Your email address will not be published. And yet genetics seems to show that affinity is not illusory. Our tree perfectly catches obvious low-level groupings but disagrees with the mainstream on the higher-level groupings. Sanskrit has a vast and varied literature, the meaning of which is on the whole clear. If it is possible to prove that his dictionary was the first Russian text to use the word, we cant of course know his logic, but we know what text he was dealing with. I presume that would have been a lot truer in an era when the hunting was richer. But you do come across things like pescado espada or pescado payaso. almost impossible to establish recurrent and regular phonological correspondences. not possible to initiate [my emphasis] the process of reconstruction until large numbers of probably cognate grammatical and lexical items are available to compare, and until a subgrouping hypothesis exists to ensure that all parts of the phylum are properly represented. The Hague and Paris; Mouton. and the Egyptian finds in southern Palestine from the Early Bronze period I (ca. What claims can we make about history when we put into the program DNA from a hunter-gatherer from Mota from ~2500BC, from modern Dinka and from Middle Eastern chalcolithic and the program says: P value is such and such? [8], At least it cured me of my other folk etymology, that the word had something to do with a mythical golden ox.. Hmm. Is he a Blench acolyte? Melchert recommends the excellent but almost totally ignored study of Jaan Puhvel 1994. Molecular phylogenetics completely stopped making this assumption about 25 years ago. no objections to the main point, though. @LH, I just dont know. My knowledge of either would be limited to the barest understanding of Hebrew grammar. Erich Neu argued in his seminal Das hethitische Mediopassiv und seine indogermanischen Grundlagen, where he analysed how the r-endings spread during the attested history of Hittite texts and how that pathway differed from those in Italic and Celtic. I advise you to take care about your portraits! , Wiktionary among the proto-Slavic meanings of the wild part (dik-) lists wild animal, especially wild boar, Evidently a loanword from the Kusaal dg warthog.. a related process of Unilateral Independent Semantic Development as being to blame for apparent proto-synonymy arising for unexpected items in the first place. Ref. But the orthography a zo* intuitive:) Each of these branches is instead now regarded as an independent subgroup of the larger Afroasiatic family. "Does anyone have a decent idea of how and where Chadic separated from AA and spread? r jach nw pa idhre reyse til norrebutn paa idherth fiskrij FM 267 ( 1505 ) . (This, too, could add to the apathy Spanish consumers feel for sharks, Garca Salinas theorizes; in a market, these animals are not labeled with the Spanish word for shark, tiburn, but instead with titles like cazn, a word commonly used for several types of fish. Bloomfields Language, despite its age, is actually still a pretty good introduction. So technically, a usage (unknown to me) where it is related to spikes could have developed but I do not think so. Any statement that English morphology is not overwhelmingly Germanic would be difficult to maintain, given e.g., ablaut in noun plurals and simple past of strong verbs (also construction of simple past of weak verbs with -ed), etc. An interesting feature of this Old South Arabian script is that the order of its letters departs from that of Phoenician and the consonantal script of Ugarit. Or appalling. Blench doesnt go round finding spurious traces of noun classes in Dogon in order to make it fit Niger-Congo better. And yes, Old Chinese had quite a number of derivational affixes that have cognates elsewhere. I think it actually is true that Africa is very undiverse compared with the Americas. Where were the referees? Faced with any facts about how Mande (or Dogon) lacks any of the supposed diagnostic criteria for Niger-Congo, and has no sign of ever having had them, he always reacts by saying that all this shows is that Mande (or Dogon) was a very early branch, split off before those features had actually developed . Sure. I checked Rabin, their quoted source (Lexicostatistics and the internal divisions of Semitic, in Bynon and Bynons Hamito-Semitica, 1975, doi: 10.1515/9783111356167.85). Proto-Berbero-Semitic) will require further investigation. sn close observer from sn bow ones head.), Yugudir hedgehog looks as if it ought to be an agent noun or instrument noun from a verb yug, but there is no such verb in Kusaal; and neither Kusaal yugus sprinkle (which could be a pluractional derivative of the unattested *yug) nor Moor yugi proclaim the royal succession looks very helpful , Thats about all I can come up with, at least in Kusaal . Greens Dictionary of Slang If you accept it in the strong formulation, Semitic (Semitic-1) must have arrived from Africa. My interest was merely clarifying what was meant. Word Routes (4) . The Bantu languages are entirely unrelated to the Semitic language familiy and thus to Hebrew. But I think I know the reason for this question. In Kusaal has triple vowels too, though expected three-mora monophthongs are reduced to two everywere except in maaa only; this is probably an exception on account of the change from *aaa to aaa (overlong glottalised vowel) being fairly recent (it was not complete in Toende Kusaal until after the 1970s.). (Also, thanks DM for an informative discussion that makes me aware of some gaps in my knowledge of phylogenetics; any good recent introductions youd recommend?). He tentatively excludes Chabu from Nilo-Saharan as an isolate and accepts Kadu. There is also a Danube paddlefish. Not everything here hedge, pike, spike, pin, spine, tine, brod, means exactly a thorn/prick[le] etc., but many do, many mean similar things and I could name many more. I just noticed I missed a whole bunch of comments here. Newman suggested a relationship between Semitic and Hausa, but this would long remain a topic of dispute and uncertainty. Overall progression thus involves an evolution in construction types. In these approaches, abstract representations emerge as secondary properties at best, and at worst, are absent entirely. It certainly is false, in principle; Western Oti-Volta illustrates the point in fact, with isoglosses criss-crossing in a way that seems impossible to explain without supposing the spread of features across already-established language boundaries. Is this true? What helped me is that silly discussion about Meinhof. Also in bezobrznyj ugly (image-less). Then he quotes from the very same article by Nichols as Claude Rilly (where he was calculating the degree of closeness between Meroitic and Nubian words for brother and sister). Arabic Fisch. Thai has one of the most elaborate systems of classifiers, with several hundred. No amount of fancy maths can compensate for poor experiment design, invalid assumptions and rubbish data. I have a poor knowledge of Korean, and I would be interested if someone who knows more could enlighten me on this point. I wonder how common is creative use of class markers, though. * from Wiktionary: From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (porpoise), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (porpoise, literally pig-fish), from Latin porcus (pig) + piscis (fish). Present status of many groups is uncertain, and you can never prove absence of a link anyway. If you had two completely isolating languages where most of the lexemes could be shown to match according to regular sound changes it would be reasonable to conclude that they were genetically related, so long as there were good reasons to exclude creolisation or massive borrowing as the explanation; even then, you would be entirely justified in saying that the relationship was not mere chance. Using that many genes allows the detection of incomplete lineage sorting and simply adds more data. Most salmon are anadromous , spending most of their time in the ocean but breeding on land. This comparison showed little preference for a model with Arabic within Central Semitic over one with Arabic within South Semitic (log BF 0.438). A term with a neutral, scholarly use throughout the world and, especially formerly, a sociopolitical use in SOUTH AFRICA that, in the context of apartheid, was largely pejorative and is therefore disliked by black South Africans. It is a poor starting point, butit is some starting point. Obviously, the bit about the spread of Semitic languages is of prime LH interest; heres a relevant snippet: Figure 2 shows Spread of Iran-like ancestry and Semitic languages. All this is way beyond my pay grade, but I expect better And the most elaborate modern attempt at reconstruction for a part of Oti-Volta is Coffi Sambinis Le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental, which is much the most substantial thing in that field since Gabriel Manessy did his pioneering stuff way back in the 1970s before he got bored and went off to be a creolist. Mehri and Harsusi kob dog form a cognate set (distinct from kalb). S4: a tree based on what they call multistate representation of data. I am not sure. Very interesting. This has been demonstrated, for example, for how children acquire the semantics, morphology, and syntax of causative verbs in three typologically distinct languages: English at the more analytic or syntactic end of the scale, Hebrew with relatively synthetic bound morphology, and Inuktitut as a polysynthetic language which marks causativity by both morphological and lexical means (Allen, in Lieven 1998). >Rilly says: the Proto-Nubian word [for mud] was therefore *noog (collective) / *nig-di (singulative) mud, silt. Boulba (a WOV language) is about as far from Byali as can actually be achieved and still all be Oti-Volta. As a native speaker of Spanish, I stand by my characterisation. I have no idea what point you want to make. Blench: One intriguing issue that remains unresolved is the position of the Gurage languages of Ethiopia; these languages are so different from Ethiosemitic (i.e., Amharic, etc.) The list itself can be based on Mande data. For the purposes of an algorithm that processes (weighed) characters the same way all differences are quantitative. Hence un pescado, for example, is literally a fished one, a fished-out one and the word implies that the fish is dead. Gk. So the early Neolithic in North Africa is consistent with Paleolithic genetics, but the later Neolithic is loaded with Middle Eastern genomes. If they knew anything about rates of change of languages (or say compared any contemporary language to its form 100 years ago vs 3,000 YBP), wouldnt it be screamingly obvious their methodology makes no sense? It is actually by no means clear that even Eastern Sudanic is a real entity at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sudanic_languages. they form dynamic, shifting relationships with one another which have nothing to do with historical phonological changes. I dont believe Egyptian *ramc has any known cognate in Semitic. This was also supported by the presence of similar mtDNA haplogroups (U6, M1) associated with the back-to-Africa migration, suggesting a continuity between Later Stone Age and Early Neolithic populations in the Maghreb. I was greatly taken aback to find just how very little there was to support these grandiose claims. I doubt whether Kitchen et al* even know why real historical linguists think that shared innovations matter. Otherwise, Id think wed see instead of Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan the diversity that we see in the click languages, where we now know that there is in fact genetic affinity between eastern and southern groups, but at a remove in time that matches the untraceable linguistic relations. >Good to have confirmation of Early European Farmer ancestry in the Maghreb. He also suggests a relation to Proto-West Germanic *-astrij.[1]. The opposite idea, that Semitic originated geographically close to the other AfAs language families (so, in Africa), has been proposed a few times but not been widely accepted. Ive just discovered that Roger Blenchs Archaeology, Language and African Past, that drasvi kindly pointed to above, contains the following words from Samuel Johnson himself, no less: There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. I think he has a bit of a stare decisis thing going on: hes happy to apply his judgment in cases where hes collected new data himself, but leery of revisiting classification decisions made by others in the past, in areas where he lacks actual first-hand data. Nevertheless, some scholars believe that even one shared trait may be enough to define a weak linguistic area (Campbell, 1985, 2006). Kusaal nb /b/, Dagbani ubi chew, and it would be nice to be able to explain the remainder similarly, but that doesnt seem possible. unhappy part of the world I googled for Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud mentioned by Thelwall, and It seems Sudanese governments love to arrest people named so. Morphology and even phonology can also be borrowed. During the early second millennium BC, a Semitic people living and laboring in Egypt developed a script for their own language by exploiting a single component of the Egyptian writing system. ], I suppose its conceivable in principle that where I would posit postvocalic *m in Proto-Volta-Congo, the actual segment was something like *, but it seems something of a stretch given the straightforward /m/ reflex in Oti-Volta, Adamawa, Bantu (its not isolated, either: Kusaal dum bite is cognate to Swahili uma bite (Proto-Bantu *dum-), Samba Leko lum; Gbeya dum- bite, tom- send .). Avva (Russian) Erythraic elements and patternings: Some East African findings. Fish just arent all that stable . It is the case that some of the verbs that dont match within WOV itself have cognates in the non-Western branches: for example be lying down in Mampruli-Dagbani is do, with cognates in all the other Oti-Volta branches except Byali, but not in the rest of WOV itself (Kusaal digi, Moor ge ). I mean the latter thats the one we can say anything about from Semitic-internal data. Actually, if agriculture reached North Africa as part of the same expansion out of Anatolia that brought agriculture to Europe, and AA reached it later in a pastoral expansion, that would explain why some of the agricultural-substrate words in western Indo-European branches also show up in Berber. Rabbits were pets, though I suppose some people ate the ones they raised themselves, and not available in stores until later. Clearly where there are major disagreements between professional linguists the data must be hard to process and most importantly, you must follow the view of an individual Good to know. Typologically the orders Noun-Postposition, Verb-Auxiliary, and Relative Clause-Head Noun are all correlated and tend to co-occur with SOV order cross-linguistically. I would be unaffectedly delighted to find a rigorous demonstration in the literature of the genetic relationship between Mande and Volta-Congo. One proposed isogloss uniting Anatolian with Tocharian, Italic and Celtic against Greek, IndoAryan, Balto-Slavic and Germanic is the use of -r in mediopassive endings. And this part is entirely absent from normal linguistical and sociolinguistical description. Why do you suppose that this uniformity necessarily arose in deep antiquity, by the way? No, it is just this page. WebBantu languages contain prefixes which are agglutinated to verb stems. And in the acquisition of the lexicon, again across languages, children move from a restricted vocabulary of nursery terms and over or underextensions of conventional items to a period of creative innovation; eventually the conventional lexicon takes over, while at the same time vocabulary growth is both constrained and elaborated by socially and culturally appropriate distinctions of register and usage, lasting into adolescence. The native word icne salmon in middle Irish is sometimes used as a generic fish word (also has Xeribs suffix). The term Indo-Hittite was coined between these two phases and regrettably not reintroduced (not even as Indo-Anatolian, which exists but hasnt caught on) during the slow, gradual end of the second phase. Ozwords (a blog from the Australian National Dictionary Centre) Or their civilised hordes began to show thier first interest in savagery. Trsor de la langue franaise informatis Still includes Saharan, mind. 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