Original upload date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:26:18 GMT
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) CARTA: Behaviorally Modern Humans: The Origin of Us -- Christopher Ehret: Relationships of Ancient African Languages
Almost all of the more than 1,000 African languages sp
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oken today belong to just four families -- Afroasiatic, Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoesan. As these language families spread out across the continent in the early Holocene, they gradually drove out hundreds of other languages that used to be spoken in Africa. Christopher Ehret (UCLA) reflects on the relationships of these languages to the existing African families and to the language families of the rest of the world, and asks what this information can tell us about human origins and early human history. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 25397]
