Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

> Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:
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> > My understanding is that PAA is usually situated far to the South,
> > somewhere near the Red Sea.  It's clear that Akkadian started
> > arriving from southward into Sumerian-speaking lands, and the
> > overall center of gravity of PAA is along the Red Sea, but other
> > than these facts I don't know anything very specific about it.
>
> From southward? What I've read of Mesopotamian history rather seemed to
suggest
> they came from the north or west; what evidence is there to allow us to
tell,
> anyway?
 If I recall correctly, I once read that the Sumerians (or was it the
Akkadians?) had migrated from a (plain/lake)* of salt....does that help any?

 * = sorry, but my mind is not what it used to be.

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>                                                        Andreas
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