Afro Asiatic Migration Academic Paper

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Afroasiatic
(
S = G. Starostin 2010; M
= A. Militarev 2005)
internal
-9500 -8500 -7500 -6500 -5500 divergence
Omotic
-14 760
S
(-6.96S
/-5.36M)
-7 870M Cushitic
(-6.54S
/-6.51M)
Afroasiatic -10 010S
Semitic
-9 970M (-3.80S
/-4.51M)
-7 710S Egyptian
-8 960M (Middle: -1.55)
Berber
-7250S
-5 990S
(-1.48S
/-1.11M)
-7710M -5 890M Chadic
(-5.13S
/-5.41M)

Rather problematic results for Omotic should be ascribed to extremely strong influences of
substrata. Various influences, especially Nilo-Saharan, are also apparent in Cushitic, plus
Khoisan and Bantu in Dahalo and South Cushitic. Less apparent, but identifiable, is the Nilo-
Saharan influence in Egyptian (Takács 1999, 38-46) and Berber (Militarev 1991, 248-65);
stronger in Chadic are influences of Saharan from the East (Jungraithmayr 1989), Songhai
from the West (Zima 1990), plus Niger-Congo from the South (Gerhardt 1983).
To map the early Afroasiatic migrations, it is necessary to localize in space and time the
Afroasiatic homeland. The assumed locations usually correlate with the areas of individual
branches:
Cushitic/Omotic: North Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea between the Nile-Atbara and Red Sea -
Ehret (1979, 165); similarly Fleming (2006, 152-57), Blench (2006). Hudson (1978, 74-75)
sees in Greater Ethiopia a homeland of both Afroasiatic and Semitic.
Area between Cushitic & Omotic, Egyptian, Berber and Chadic: Southeast Sahara between
Darfur in Sudan and the Tibesti Massiv in North Chad - Diakonoff 1988, 23.
Chadic: North shores of Lake Chad - Jungraithmayr 1991, 78-80.
Berber-Libyan: North African Mediterranean coast - Fellman 1991-93, 57.
Egyptian: Upper Egypt - Takács 1999, 47.
Semitic: Levant – Militarev 1996, 13-32. This solution is seriously discussed by Diakonoff
(1988, 24-25) and Petráček (1988, 130-31; 1989, 204-05) as alternative to the African
location.


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