Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

On Sep 27, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Rodlox wrote:
>  *looks at a map*  I myself'd go along this route:
> Red Sea ->
> 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.

The Sumerians lived in what's now Kuwait (at least if any of it wasn't
underwater at the time) and southern Iraq.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "Jordan is a magical misty mystical wonderland!"
      ~ the effects of Dead Sea haze