Post by asante on Feb 14, 2014 22:40:10 GMT -5
Now who is the guy above?? is he an Afrasian speaker a Niger Kodofanian a Nilo Saharan??..is he a "true Negro" and therefore not us or is he us??
The person in the picture is in fact an Omotic speaker (Karo) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Is Omotic an Afrisan language? Traditionally it has been "troublesome" to Western linguist to label it as such. In fact recent studies conclude that Omotic is an independent language (source) rather than Afrisan. Cambridge scholars also wrote a piece on Omotic a few years back:
Cambridge, Wednesday, 15 November 2006
Omotic livestock terminology and its implications for the history of Afroasiatic
The Omotic languages were the last branch of Afroasiatic to be formally recognised, and even today, some researchers would like to see them re-united with Cushitic. Nonetheless, following Bender (1975) and Hayward (1989), the acceptance of the distinctive nature of Omotic is the dominant paradigm. Bender (2000, 2003) has presented an overall picture of Omotic phonology, morphology and lexicon and collected together the majority of references as well as a variety of unpublished materials. The features of Omotic that continue to persuade authors such as Lamberti & Sottile (1997:19) it should be considered ‘West Cushitic’ are though by most researchers to be simply evidence of extensive long-term interactions between the two Afroasiatic branches.
Most likely, however, is that Omotic is simply older than the other branches of the phylum and this is in turn is because SW Ethiopia is the homeland of the phylum. If this is the case, then Omotic may well throw light on the primary expansion of Afroasiatic. Archaeology in this part of Ethiopia is too weak to advance any clear correlations, but it is possible to examine the Afroasiatic languages for possible reconstructions that may point to the lifeways of early speakers (Blench 2006).
Omotic livestock terminology and its implications for the history of Afroasiatic
The Omotic languages were the last branch of Afroasiatic to be formally recognised, and even today, some researchers would like to see them re-united with Cushitic. Nonetheless, following Bender (1975) and Hayward (1989), the acceptance of the distinctive nature of Omotic is the dominant paradigm. Bender (2000, 2003) has presented an overall picture of Omotic phonology, morphology and lexicon and collected together the majority of references as well as a variety of unpublished materials. The features of Omotic that continue to persuade authors such as Lamberti & Sottile (1997:19) it should be considered ‘West Cushitic’ are though by most researchers to be simply evidence of extensive long-term interactions between the two Afroasiatic branches.
Most likely, however, is that Omotic is simply older than the other branches of the phylum and this is in turn is because SW Ethiopia is the homeland of the phylum. If this is the case, then Omotic may well throw light on the primary expansion of Afroasiatic. Archaeology in this part of Ethiopia is too weak to advance any clear correlations, but it is possible to examine the Afroasiatic languages for possible reconstructions that may point to the lifeways of early speakers (Blench 2006).
Clearly you can see that Omotic speakers are overwhelmingly comprised of M2 lineages (US), and as you can see they even generally looks like us.
In Ethiopia's case it's alot like the heterogeneous black populations in parts of Nigeria, Chad and Niger where you have an intermixing of Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan and of course Afrisan (it is Ethiopia) phenotypes and genetics. None the less these M2 lineage carrying, generally broad featured ("negroid") southern Ethiopian populations (who are in close proximity to CEA's) also show cultural affinities to ancient Egypt (my entire point with that picture).
and if he is a true Negro then why does he fall short of------------------------>
But then again are you really this unaware of the identity and unique qualities of your own people?