Somali and reconstructing proto-semetic

[Midas]

So if both ancient eygptian and semetic speakers descended from proto somali pastoralists like my theory suggesg that would obviously change how the afroasiatic languges family looks like. Proto semetic and Proto anicent eygptian would just be somali in reality.

So I decided to test this out for fun . The first word that occurred to me was the first verse the prophet received iqra(read/recite) in the name of your lord . So if you look up the protosemetic word for read/recite all they have is the kr sound which if you add two vowels to the front and a constant in thr middle. You get akhri. And i can totally see the akh sound pronounced really quickly evolving into the semetic q.

Theres also another intresting one which is the word for a cow in aramaic being tawrta which if you take out the t in the front becomes awrta which is the somali word for a male camel.

But probably the example i found most interesting is the word wahid which is 1 in arabic and Hebrew but is apparently in proto semetic used not as a number but meant lone/singular and its used in this adjectival sense in akkadian. You also see it used in this sense in somali which wouldn’t make sense if it was a loan word from arabic.

 

[cunug3aad]

I always thought akhri to be a sort of botched import of قرأ like how the kh and q sounds in somali swapped around sometimes in words

 

[Midas]

I always thought akhri to be a sort of botched import of قرأ like how the kh and q sounds in somali swapped around sometimes in words

The older meaning of the word is recite and this is basically the only word we have. Wouldn't it be pretty weird that somalis who were reciting poetry before the Islamic period didnt have a word that meant recite ?

 

[yele25]

what i found interesting, in Aramaic the language Nabi Issa spoke , the word for father in Somali and Aramaic is both Aaabo

 

[Midas]

what i found interesting, in Aramaic the language Nabi Issa spoke , the word for father in Somali and Aramaic is both Aaabo

The earliest semetic languages basically emerged from contact of those proto-somali speakers with the sumerian and other languages from anatolia/iran. Up until basically the iron age all those new waves of semetic speakers coming out from the desert and into Iraq and the Levant spoke dialects that were more closely related to somali.

Its why even today modern south arabian languages on the coastal edges of Yemen and Oman have a "cushitic substratum"