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Re: Semitic rhotic questions

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Saturday, November 8, 2003, 0:22
On 7 Nov 2003 at 12:38, Adam Walker wrote:

> As for the geographic location of C-a speaking lands. > Currently, Marga Carraxa extends along the North > African coast from Surt (in *here*'s Libya) westwards > to just east of Oran (in *here*'s Algeria). As I > understand it Magrevia (Morocco) borders us in the > west, Tuaredja in the south and a small state centered > on Benghazi (Chirinecha) in the east. Beyond that > lies Chemi (Egypt). Temporally, the history exists > upto about 1500 AD give or take. Where do the > Thagojians live?
By the tenth century AD, they were settled basically on the coastal Egypt / Holy Land region, but they came from somewhere vaguely east- ish of there, within range (in time and space) of the various Cuneiform-using peoples. The language died out some time after the tenth century, probably nearer the fifteenth or sixteenth, but I haven't really done enough historical research to find out exactly where to insert that particular event. Largely, the AU they inhabit is the same as Here, with as few changes as possible. If the 20th century were relevant to their history, I have some concultural changes I'd make in the general region, but not too many. Mainly, one failed uprising, and a few consequences of it. Paul