Re: Origin of the name Tech...

--- BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

> At 15:28 20.7.2000 -0700, Danny Wier wrote:
>
> >IE and Dravidian are the only two attested daughter families.
> Somehow
> >it surviced in Tech, an African language that would naturally be
> closer
> >related to Afro-Asiatic (aka Hamito-Semitic).
>
> It might be closer relayed to Dravidian after all(*), since in the
> Real
> World there were quite lively overseas contacts between South India
> and
> Ethiopia.
You're probably right.  African people traded with the Irish and
possibly the Picts.  Definitely the Basques as well.  (Then there are
the rumours of Egyptian or maybe West African settlement of South
America.)

> (* If you accept the Nostratic idea, which I don't in the Real World.
>  It
> occurs to me that it might be a runaway [Elamo-]Dravidian lg with a
> heavy
> Afro-Asiatic adstrate!)
I'm still investigating.  I haven't made a decision yet.  Not
decisively yet.  (If the Nostratic idea is a bunch of smoke and
mirrors, at least I can put it to some good use...)

I'm still thinking about coming up with an even OLDER protolanguage,
then superimposing a Nostratic substrate.  I've heard the term
Niger-Congo-Nilo-Saharan bandied about...

ah, maybe not

DaW.

(btw, the Techians domesticated the cat around 7200 BC; it was a fad
that started with the video game Kittymon, imported from south India)

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