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    The Proto-Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the Proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex...
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  • Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which...
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    ancestor of all Afroasiatic languages, known as Proto-Afroasiatic, was originally spoken. However, most agree that the Afroasiatic homeland was located somewhere...
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    The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated...
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  • Wiktionary). Afroasiatic languages Afroasiatic homeland Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples History of the Middle East Proto-Afroasiatic language Proto-Indo-European...
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  • historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ˈʊərhaɪmɑːt/ OOR-hye-maht, from German ur- "original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region...
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    possesses the second-longest recorded history of any known family, after the Afroasiatic Egyptian language and Semitic languages. The analysis of the family relationships...
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    of the Uralic family may treat the terms as synonymous. Proposed homelands of the Proto-Uralic language include: The vicinity of the Volga River, west of...
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    BC according to mainstream hypotheses) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic (c. 10,000 BC: 33  or 11,000 to 16,000 BC: 35–36  according to different...
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    the 19th century. Genetic history of the Middle East Proto-Semitic language Afroasiatic homeland Early Semitic. A diachronical inquiry into the relationship...
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    and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast and Southern Africa. Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn...
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    Indo-European migrations (category Proto-Indo-Europeans)
    created by speakers of Proto-Indo-European in several stages: from the hypothesized locations of the Proto-Indo-European homeland, into their later locations...
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    produced conflicting outcomes. Some researchers find evidence for a proto-Austronesian homeland on the Asian mainland (e.g., Melton et al. 1998), while others...
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    revised views place only Pre-Proto-Indo-European in the 7th millennium BC in Anatolia, proposing as the homeland of Proto-Indo-European proper the Balkans...
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    From a prehistoric homeland near Darfur, which was better watered, the "Egyptians" were the first to break from the proto Afroasiatic communities, before...
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    Semitic languages (category Afroasiatic languages)
    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...
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    and speculated that the Afroasiatic homeland might be in southwestern Ethiopia. The split between proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic began by the fourth...
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  • origin of the Proto-Afroasiatic languages, the Levant theory and the African continental theory. According to the theory of a homeland in Levant, the...
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  • into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC. The original homeland of Proto-South Cushitic was in Southwest Ethiopia. South Cushitic speakers...
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  • Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also...
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    scientists found that all males belonged to haplogroup E1b1b, common among Afroasiatic males. The male specimens with sufficient nuclear DNA preservation belonged...
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  • belonging to the Berber and Cushitic branches, respectively, of the Afroasiatic family. More recent research instead suggests that the people of the...
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    Comparisons Between Language Families: The Case of Indo-European and Afroasiatic." General Linguistics 27/1: 34-46. SHEVOROSHKIN, V.V. & M. KAISER. 1988...
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  • Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, researchers attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Afroasiatic language, suggesting it likely arose between 18,000 and 12,000 years...
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    speakers of Proto-Afroasiatic were based in Northeast Africa because that region includes the majority of the diversity of the Afroasiatic language family...
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  • University of Tokyo. Ehret, Christopher (1995). Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): vowels, tone, consonants, and vocabulary. University...
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    the Caucasus as their homeland. A prehistoric people who lived in the region before the Sumerians have been termed the "Proto-Euphrateans" or "Ubaidians"...
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    period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic language family. In 980 BC, the Kingdom of D'mt extended its...
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  • which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed as fringe science. Proposals which are themselves...
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  • similar to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including...
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