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[Dorothy Disterheft]

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From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv at pi.net>
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Subject: Re: Dravidians from Africa/not Europe
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Clyde Winters wrote:
 
>                    Common Indo African Terms
>
> English       Dravidian        Senegalese        Manding
 
There is no such language as "Senegalese".  I take it you mean Wolof.
 
> Mother           amma              ama             ma
> Saliva           tuppal             tuudde           tu
 
These two are meaningless.  I can give dozens of languages with the
same "ma" and "tu" words.
 
> pregnancy        basaru              bir           bara
> Grand             biru               bur            ba
> King              mannan          mansa             mansa
 
What happened with Dravidian -sa- in <basaru>?  Or with
Wolof/Mandingo -sa- in <mansa>?
 
> boat              kulam             gaal            kulu
> stream             kolli            kal              koli
> skin               uri               guri            guru
 
Sound laws?
 
> cultivate           bey              mbey            be
 
Right...
 
> Pronominal Agreement
> Language        1P SG        2nd P        3rd P
> Dravidian     an, naa,ne      i             a
> Somali         ani          adigu        isagu
> Nubian         anni            ir          tar
> Bantu           ni             u            a
> Manding         na, n          i            a
> Hausa           na             kin          ya
> Wolof           ma             ya           na
 
Are you aware of twentieth-century advances in African linguistics?
Somali is a Cushitic language of the Afro-Asiatic
phylum.  Hausa is a Chadic language, also Afro-Asiatic.  And Nubian is
a West Sudanic language (Nilo-Saharan).
 
 
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