[Renfield]

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[blam]

Some of that is very good. (bump)

[BJClinton]

Fascinating article, thanks for posting it.

[gleeaikin]

In reading this fascinating article I was reminded of something I saw two years ago in “General History of Africa; II Ancient Civilizations of Africa,” G. Mokhtar, Ed., UNESCO, 1990. I will now quote from it.

“Linguistic Affinity: Wolof, a Senegalese language spoken in the extreme west of Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, is perhaps as close to Ancient Egyptian as Coptic. An exhaustive study of this question has recently been carried out. In this chapter enough is presented to show that the kinship between Ancient Egyptian and the languages of Africa is not hypothetical but a demonstrable fact which it is impossible for modern scholarhip to thrust aside.” Then some examples from an extended list.

Egyp.: kef = to grasp Wolof: kef = to sieze a prey
Egyp.: feh = go away Wol.: feh = rush off
Egyp.: nad = ask Wol.: lad = ask
Egyp.: nah = protect Wol.: lah = protect
Egyp.: ben ben = well up Wol.: bel bel = well up

The chapter further hypothesizes that through the comparative study of African languages, much more could be learned about the ancient Egyptian language.

The Egyptian Old Kingdom did not begin until around 3,000 BC, and it is quite likely that the Nile River culture developed as the savannas of the Sharah became desert, and the Nile the main reliable water source.