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1. According to Igor M. Diakonoff (1988: 33n), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10,000 BC. Christopher Ehret (2002: 35–36) asserts that Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11,000 BC at the latest, and possibly as early as c. 16,000 BC. These dates are older than those associated with other proto-languages.
2. Like most other proto-languages, it is not attested by any surviving texts but has been reconstructed using the comparative method.
3. As with almost all other proto-languages, no attested writings have been found;
4. Proto-Polynesian displays many innovations not found in the other proto-languages.
5. The twelfth item, louse/nit, is well kept in the North Caucasian languages, Dravidian and Turkic, but not in other proto-languages.
6. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th century A.D. As with most other proto-languages, no attested writings have been found;
7. Like other proto-languages, there is no record of Proto-Bantu.
Some Words
- (Urheimat
- "original homeland
- the hypothetical place
- Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers
- a single linguistic community
- this original language
- distinct languages
- Their distribution
- the Sahara pump
- no agreement
- this language family
- The main theories
- Widespread (though not universal) features
- the Afroasiatic languages
- the most remarkable shared features
- the prefixing verb conjugation
- this section
- a distinctive pattern
- /ʔ t n y/
- third-singular masculine /y-/
- tonal languages
- the Omotic and Chadic branches
- certain Cushitic languages
- The Semitic
- Egyptian branches
- Afroasiatic cognates
- ten pronouns
- three nouns
- three verbs
- two etymological dictionaries
- The two dictionaries
- almost everything
- The following table
- the thirty roots
- a fragile consensus
- present research
- the main sources
- Afroasiatic etymologies
- also UK
- [ənˈdorə