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Greetings, let us begin, the probable first mention of a “Negro – Egyptian” language family was by Dr. Obenga.

“it would be possible in the future to identify a Negro-Egyptian language analogous to Indo-European” (UNESCO, 1978:

The keyword would be ” analogous” actually, a term to mean similar or comparable to something in detail or some specific detail. Of course, most historical linguists or those who actually study the historical-comparative method would easily know why this statement was made and this particular word was used. The Indo -European language family was constructed by the historical-comparative method, in which Grimm’s Law and even the Neogrammarian hypothesis can be observed and gleaned with exceptional patterns of sound laws in other words phonetic regularity, sound correspondences. Obenga is stating that a Black African language family must follow the same scientific structure and methodology in which today’s African language classifications as Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo and even Nilo-Saharan have completely missed the mark. These African language phyla constructed by Greenberg’s mass comparative methodology (review: Greenberg 1966) has simply failed, this linguistic failure was simply known since 1966 from the historical linguistic community, African or European. We are in our scientific right and freedom as linguists, to compare and construct our own Black African language classifications. The African classifications of today are scientifically dubious, with the inaccurate methodology of establishing language relationship within the classification, lack of sound laws, Medew Neter and Semitic languages have very poor even little to no sound correspondences to even prove they are in fact related. Here is a historical linguistic textbook, I suggest all to have, study, and examine. Dr. Obenga presented this source and others in UNESCO, this source gives a detailed examination of the scientific failure of Greenbergs vast African classifications.