Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

On Sep 28, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Rodlox wrote:
>>>> Cole-Syria (that spit of land linking Egypt to Arabia & Palestine)
>>>> ->
>>>> Mediterranean (sailboat or at least a raft) ->
>>>> home of the Sumerians.
>>>>  would that work?
>>> Coele-Syria, if i remember correctly, *is*
>>> Palestine/Israel/Canaan/etc., as well as Lebanon (i.e. pretty much
>>> the
>>> whole Levant area).  It's a Greek name meaning something like "Hollow
>>> Syria", referring to the northern non-oceanic part of the
>>> African-Asian
>>> Rift.
>>> The spit of land you're thinking of is probably the Sinai peninsula.
>>  my Egyptology teacher said that that was Cole-Syria...at least
>> during the time of Ramses.
Weird... which Rameses?
I just read a website that said that both of us are wrong, and
Coele-Syria is the Mediterranean coastline north of the Litani river.

>>> The Sumerians lived in what's now Kuwait (at least if any of it
>>> wasn't underwater at the time) and southern Iraq
>>  umm...then why all the talk of crossing deserts?  :)   just sail
>> *around* Arabia.
>> yes?  :)
Hmmm... i dunno, would people back then have been able to do that?


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  "You know, I rather like this God fellow.
   Very theatrical, you know.
   Pestilence here, a plague there.
   Omnipotence ... gotta get me some of that."
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