Definitions
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- proper noun linguistics, uncountable The hypothetical
ancestor language orprotolanguage ofAfro-Asiatic languages. - proper noun anthropology, countable A person who spoke the Proto-Afro-Asiatic language.
- adjective linguistics, anthropology Of or pertaining to the Proto-Afro-Asiatic language, or the people who spoke it.
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Since we're talking about Minoan of the 2nd millenium BCE, the proposed phonologies of Proto-Semitic c.5000 BCE or even earlier Proto-Afro-Asiatic are entirely anachronistic to this topic and thus irrelevant.
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As for the numeral "7", by Afro-Asiatic you mean Proto-Afro-Asiatic or its daughter (such as PSem *sábʕ-u(m) or PEg *safḫaw)?
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Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages.
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Peťusek: "As for the numeral '7', by Afro-Asiatic you mean Proto-Afro-Asiatic or its daughter (such as PSem *sábʕ-u(m) or PEg *safḫaw)?"
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Proto-Afro-Asiatic itself dates to at least 10,000 years B.P. and so has nothing to do with Etruscan!
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Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Proto-Afro-Asiatic itself dates to at least 10,000 years B.P. and so has nothing to do with Etruscan!
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In 1984, Bomhard published Toward Proto-Nostratic in which he explored in particular the possible relationships between Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Afro-Asiatic (PAA).
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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In 1984, Bomhard published Toward Proto-Nostratic in which he explored in particular the possible relationships between Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Afro-Asiatic (PAA).
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In Nostratic, on the other hand, there is still no reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut, and the latest three reconstructions of Proto-Afro-Asiatic (one of them extremely dependent on the way Arabic dictionaries are traditionally organized...) contradict each other on fairly important issues, not to mention the fact that plenty of AA languages are drastically underresearched and the fact that the hypothesis that Omotic is more closely related to (the rest of) AA than to anything else within Nostratic has recently turned out to be very, very poorly supported.
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