单词 | Afroasiatic |
例句 | In East Africa they still had to compete against numerous Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic Iron Age farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In particular, Afroasiatic speakers mostly prove to be people who would be classified as whites or blacks, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo speakers prove to be blacks, Khoisan speakers Khoisan, and Austronesian speakers Indonesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fragmented distribution of Nilo-Saharan languages in Figure 19.2 similarly implies that many speakers of those languages have been engulfed by speakers of Afroasiatic or Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here they encountered a melting pot of Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan farmers and herders growing millet and sorghum and raising livestock in drier areas, along with Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the evidence derived from plant names in modern African languages permits us to glimpse the existence of three languages being spoken in Africa thousands of years ago: ancestral Nilo-Saharan, ancestral Niger-Congo, and ancestral Afroasiatic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This suggests that Afroasiatic languages arose in Africa, and that only one branch of them spread to the Near East. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even more unexpectedly, clicks or Khoisan words also appear in two Afroasiatic languages spoken by blacks in Kenya, stranded still farther from present Khoisan peoples than are the Hadza and Sandawe peoples of Tanzania. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even with this broad time frame, contemporary linguists widely accept Afroasiatic as the oldest language family. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z These were the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa who spoke Afroasiatic languages, a world away from Arabic, and who practiced various animist cults. In Search of Ancient Morocco 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z But the exact point at which Hebrew and Arabic diverged from other Afroasiatic languages is heavily disputed. What’s the World’s Oldest Language? 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z |
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