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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 between Igbo and Medew NeTer, so she violated regularity principles 2) Not only was sound laws neglected but the sheer low number of vocabulary chosen would demonstrate nothing beyond chance or borrowings, 3) Dr. Kambon already mentioned about using Egyptological transliterations alongside living extant languages, egyptological conventions cannot be confused as living sounds, a mistake that numerous pseudo linguists make. 4) I’m sure what she means by ‘Egyptian” is she using Old, Middle (Classical), Late ??? or if she is combining all chronological points ?, in which these phases would have Old and middle with slight differences but late Egyptian would have some differences worth mentioning, so when she says “Egyptian” what does she mean exactly? 5) a proper Medew Neter or reconstruction of the parent was never demonstrated which is the nucleus to Negro – Egyptian linguistics, in historical linguistic methodology, when reconstructing, we would need the attested sounds that are found in numerous systematic
occurrences throughout the languages understudy then the reconstruction of the parent can take place by utilizing varying reconstruction principles. This is just a beginner’s breakdown of the errors.-
I meant to say, “I’m not SURE what she means by ‘Egyptian’?
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