Comparative Negro – Egyptian Linguistics
This African linguistic group advances the idea of Dr. Theophile Obenga’s ” Negro-Egyptian”... View more
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Kamji posted an update in the group
Comparative Negro – Egyptian Linguistics 4 years ago · Is anyone aware of Dr. Catherine’s work comparing lexical items between Igbo abd mdw kmt. Has anyone ever expanded on this using sound laws to compare the two languages?
https://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/igbo/westafricanorigin.htm
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Her effort is to be respected but her demonstration of historical-comparative methodology and the proper nuances of demonstrating the techniques of reconstruction methodology was never demonstrated in this paper that was shared. This would be considered pseudo-linguistics, 1) she did not demonstrate convincing established sound laws…- View 1 reply
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Giles Domkam posted an update in the group
Comparative Negro – Egyptian Linguistics 4 years agoAt around 46:00 Dr. Felix Chami references a connection between the term Punt and the term Pwane in Kibantu and Kiswahili as coast. Is this a valid connection?
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We already explained in other posts the method to determine COGNATES, kindly go back to those comments made by myself and Dr. Kambon detailing the methodology that historical linguists use to determine genetic relationships and cognates.
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Giles Domkam posted an update in the group
Comparative Negro – Egyptian Linguistics 4 years ago · What is your opinion of this analysis of Shupamem(the language of Bamun) and AE?
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Excellent post, this is the best place to review this data, only small disagreements but major when it comes to reconstruction, this is in no way legitimate of a relationship genetically, but this is good beginners example, waiting for other reviewers, good post to be reviewed
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I also observed that he used an orthographic capital S, for the term Sasa and the other homonym Sasa, there is no capital -S- in the IPA pulmonic consonants to represent any type of voiceless alveolar fricatives. So, these things are small but can have problematic and major disastrous consequences for your reconstruction, making…
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I observed for the word -Nsaa- it seems this is also orthographic, did the author make any notes that the initial C1 consonant is a [N] voiced uvular nasal or is it a capital letter?
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@ntrnb18, as you pointed out, the representation looks orthographic rather than phonetic. Secondarily, there is no indication how the values for Egyptien were obtained. I pointed this out to you as the fatal flaw in Mboli’s work in taking egyptological convention and placing it on the same footing as attested languages. What…- View 5 replies
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