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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [b]KocaKola we have evidence that many West African groups fomerly lived in Egypt. [/b] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: Bu nafret su em bu bon, "a state of good has become a state of evil" WOLOF : Bu rafet mel ni bu bon, "a state of good has become a state of evil" ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: mer on ef, "he loved" WOLOF : maar on ef, "he loved passionately" ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: mer on es, "she loved" WOLOF : maar on es, "she loved passionately" ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: mer on sen, "they loved" WOLOF : maar on sen, "they loved passionately" ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: bu huru - badness, wickedness YORUBA: bu buru - badness, wickedness ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: en en - not, no! COPTIC: Anon - not, no! YORUBA: en en - not, no! ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: bu - place, condition WOLOF: bu - place, condition ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: mer - love COPTIC: me, mere, merit - love, beloved [IMG]http://4ex6ow.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p_aLtD1Vg0rgcaKZ4zl_8EI7YOkh81dTK14A-OxgbxSxgiadfDnNS0r1hbleBNtlcuQEMiTd1g-tu-b5xnk36p4LZauITComT/Totemic%20clan%20names.PNG[/IMG] ... [/QUOTE]Diop's major work is his identification of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and parts of the Sahara as the original homeland of the people of Senegal. There is abundant archaeological and linguistic evidence supporting the Egyptian origin of the West Africans. Much of West Africa was heavily forested until the last part of the first millennium B.C. ( McIntosh & McIntosh, 1983; Winters, 1986). The Niger Delta, for example, was uninhabited until after 500 B.C. (McIntosh & McIntosh, 1983, 39-42). Diop has marshaled linguistic and archaeological data to support an African origin for the people of West Africa. He used toponyms and ethnonyms to prove the migration of West Africans from the Central and Eastern Sudan (Diop, 1981). We can use onomastics to study African migrations (Diagne,1981; Diop, 1981 and Olderogge,1981) . In the recovery of information concerning the African past, Diop promotes semantic anthropology, comparative linguistics and the study of Onomastics. The main thesis of Diop is that typonymy and ethnonymy of Africa point to a common cradle for Paleo-Africans in the Nile Valley (Diop 1978, 67). Onomastics is the science of names. Diop has studied legends, placenames and religious cult terms to discover the unity of African civilization. Diop (1981, 86) observed that: "An undisputed linguistic relationship between two geographically remote groups of languages can be relevant for the study of migrations. A grammatical (or genetic) relationship if clear enough is never an accident". As a result, Diop has used toponyms (place-names), anthroponyms (personal names) and ehthnonyms (names of ethnic groups/tribes) to explain the evidence of analogous ethnic (clan) names in West Africa and the Upper Nile (Diop 1991). In Precolonial Black Africa, Diop used ethnonyms to chart the migrations of African people in West Africa. And in The African Origin of Civilization, Diop used analyses acculturaliste or typological analysis to study the origin and spread of African cultural features from the Nile Valley to West Africa through his examination of toponyms (Diop 1974, 182-183). In the Cultural Unity of Black Africa, Diop discussed the common totems and religious terms many African ethnic groups share (Diop 1978, 124). Diop (1981) provides the methodology to study African migrations.. He explains how to use linguistics, ethnonyms and toponyms to study African migrations. In this article he illustrates how Senegalese people originated in the Nubian Hills and migrated Westward into the senegambian region.. Some of the clan names used to support this research include: [list] [*]Nuer Fulani Kao ka Bari Bari Jallogh Jallo ''''' Tukulor Kan Kan Ci Sy Wan Wan [/list] There are three parts to Diop’s method. You begin with identifying a linguistic relationship between the target groups. Secondly, you find sound equivalent ethnonyms, e.g., mati (Senegal)---> Maat (ancient Egyptian) and Aatou (Senegal)-->Alum (ancient Egyptian). And Egyptian Anw =Osiris written with a pillar compares favorably to Wolof enw (yenw)=carry on the head: (k)enw = pillar. The third part of the method is the use of ethnic data. This method advocated by Diop was used by Wally. He first presented the linguistic evidence and then he confirmed his finding by comparing West African ethnonyms to ancient Egyptian terms. Diagne,P. (1981). In J. Ki-Zerbo (Ed.), General history of Africa I: Methodology and African prehistory (233-260). London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. Diop, C.A. (1978). Precolonial Black Africa. Wesport, Conn. :Lawrence Hill and Company. Diop, C.A. 1981. A methodology for the study of migrations. In African Ethnonyms and Toponyms, by UNESCO. (Unesco: Paris) 86--110. McIntosh, S. K. & McIntosh, R. (1983). Forgotten Tells of Mali. Expedition, 35-47. Olderogge, L. (1981). Migrations and ethnic and linguistic differentiations. In J. Ki-Zerbo (Ed.),General History of Africa I: Methodology and African History (271-278). Paris: UNESCO. Winters, Clyde Ahmad. (1986). The Migration Routes of the Proto-Mande", The Mankind Quarterly 27, no1 , pp. 77-96. [b]The Egypto-Roman sources make it clear that the Beja entered Egypt in Roman times. Most Beja live outside Egypt. If the Beja formerly lived in Egypt there should be evidence of there migration out of Egypt. Please provide evidence that the Beja who live outside Egypt , migrated to their present habitation sites from ancient Egypt.[/b] . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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