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Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, September 25, 2004, 22:51
Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> 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? Andreas

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