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I May Present this at the Second Annual Abibitumi Conference in 2024:
Pre-Colonial Autonyms: Ethiopic Geez Inscriptions Confirm Afrikans Calling Themselves and Other Nubians ‘Blacks’ < wslmhy > vs ‘Reds’ < ‘dmhy > (Semiticized Element ?) (Critical Thinking)
Here is the reason why I may need to centralize all of the data I have collected from my independent research and now I include my college (undergraduate student/major: History) data collection. I’m finding a complete pattern of autonymic names of ‘Blacks’ vs ‘Reds’ (Red may be a probable Euroasian or Semitized Element ? borrowed from cultural diffusion of < aAmu > languages like Akkadian, Arabic into Black Afrikan languages from Contact) developed by its indigenous members in pre-colonial periods of Afrikan history stretching from the Old Kingdom of the Nile Valley rock inscriptions (Nile Valley), Saharan cave art, and now as I examine Ethiopic Geez inscriptions including the Ethiopic obelisk inscriptions to add to the collection of data. This data may be a little too much to publish in a single paper for a peer-reviewed journal due to word count limits so I may simply centralize the data in a complete volume of a book (text) and then submit that to the journal instead.
In the screenshot, we have pre-colonial Ethiopic Geez inscriptions that confirm the terms < wslmhy > Blacks deriving from the Geez adjective < slm > or salim meaning Black in which Ethiopic experts in peer-reviewed data translated and transliterated < wslmhy > to mean ‘Blacks’, also, they found its opposition as < ‘dmhy > deriving from the root < adam > meaning red-brown to be autonymic names of populations of the Ethiopic kingdom of < D’MT >. This pattern is attested in the ‘Black’ and ‘Red’ autonymic concepts of Nile Valley < kmt > Blacks (collective) vs dSrw (Reds) or even as some Eurocentric worldview as < kmt > Black land vs < dSrw > Red Land found in Old Kingdom rock art and within the Middle Kingdom concerning its populations or some may argue (Inaccurate Eurocentric) Black land vs Red Land, as well as the older Saharan rock art of ‘Blacks’ and ‘Reds’ drawn in caves. In the Old Kingdom two brothers can be distinguished by < km > and < dSr > as primary adjectives for example, < sbj km > Sabi the Black,(Dark skin) from < sbj dSr > Sabi the Red (light skin).
The Coptic dialects including its inscriptions also confirm this opposition between ‘Blacks’ < kamaiu > in Sahidic and in the singular < keme > Black person, between < Reds >, as well as in Demotic inscriptions < km > dark colored person (University of Chicago). I have examined late Egyptian inscriptions of Nubians < nHsy > being referred to as < rmt km > Black persons. It is so much data, that I may need to write it in book form for it may exceed the word count typical of peer-reviewed journal systems.
Thanks for supporting my research. I may have to bring this to the Abibitumi Conference in 2024, If time permits.
Source: https://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_1961_num_4_1_1119
