The most popular hypothesis is that it arrived via South Arabians due to proximity and archeological findings in Somaliland showing the remains of South Semitic peoples. However, I think maybe the progenitor of the T-haplogroup Somalis might've come from North Arabian speaking populations:
1) There is currently no evidence not T-Y45591 being present in Yemen. The only non-somalis to have it happen to come from Hijaz and the Persian gulf. Why would T-Y45591 be absent in Yemen if the Somali subclass originated there?
2) Inscriptions found in Northern Somali could just as easily be from North/old Arabian populations that used the same script as South Semitic speakers.
So it could either be population from Mesopotamia that migrated via the gulf or a population from northern Arabia/Jordan that migrated via the red sea coast of modern day Saudi Arabia
The attached map implies a migration by T-haplogroup individuals from Arabia via Hijaz to the Red sea coast of Eritrea and Djibouti.
What do you guys think?
1) There is currently no evidence not T-Y45591 being present in Yemen. The only non-somalis to have it happen to come from Hijaz and the Persian gulf. Why would T-Y45591 be absent in Yemen if the Somali subclass originated there?
2) Inscriptions found in Northern Somali could just as easily be from North/old Arabian populations that used the same script as South Semitic speakers.
So it could either be population from Mesopotamia that migrated via the gulf or a population from northern Arabia/Jordan that migrated via the red sea coast of modern day Saudi Arabia
The attached map implies a migration by T-haplogroup individuals from Arabia via Hijaz to the Red sea coast of Eritrea and Djibouti.
What do you guys think?
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