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Through an interesting linguistic hypothesis, 'proto-Indo-European' (proto-/IE) received Afro-Asiatic (AA) influence via a branch labeled "Old Balkanic," which had similar features as Egyptian, Semitic, and Berber -- a new dead AA segment.
Instead of proposing Seimitc direct contact, Bjørn G. R. (2023) proposed an intermediate early Neolithic contact culture horizon that enriched IE regarding subsistence formations and numerical systems:
It's fascinating how the Balkans pre-IE had AA speakers.
Insular Celtic had contact with AA speakers in the terminal Bronze Age. Or we're looking at an archaic sub-stratum that differentially influenced Celts (Matasović, 2012, p. 155):
One of the convenient interpretations is that the pre-Celtic language of the region before it got absorbed was either heavily AA imprinted or part of the AA genetic phylogeny.
There are things un-documented about pre-history that defy the current historical narrative order of past understanding as historical documentation was given in a later demographic paradigm.
Instead of proposing Seimitc direct contact, Bjørn G. R. (2023) proposed an intermediate early Neolithic contact culture horizon that enriched IE regarding subsistence formations and numerical systems:
It's fascinating how the Balkans pre-IE had AA speakers.
Insular Celtic had contact with AA speakers in the terminal Bronze Age. Or we're looking at an archaic sub-stratum that differentially influenced Celts (Matasović, 2012, p. 155):
One of the convenient interpretations is that the pre-Celtic language of the region before it got absorbed was either heavily AA imprinted or part of the AA genetic phylogeny.
There are things un-documented about pre-history that defy the current historical narrative order of past understanding as historical documentation was given in a later demographic paradigm.