NEW150Y1 Lecture Notes - University Of Al Quaraouiyine, Afroasiatic Languages
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First settlement found was in northern part of africa. Political charged and racial driven (developed sophisticated civilization widely known around the world) (need to know all the cities in northern part ) North africa stops at egypt (in this class ) The rest after egypt is like sudan etc and is the horn of africa. First place ppl come together in bands was rift valley (which is in the. First migratory pattern, ppl moved from east and began settling along the blue nile (different from white nile which is opposite side, and also diff from the nile which is at the top look at map) Blue nile place where humans began to settle. Land was fertile and deposits along the bank- source of water, animals come there. Speak predominantly afro-asiatic languages- darija, (arabic, french , Spanish) live in morraco, tunisia, mauritania, even egypt and chad , berbers speak dajira which is most dominant.
