THE BLACK ROOTS OF EGYPT'S GLORY - The Washington Post

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THE BLACK ROOTS OF EGYPT'S GLORY - The Washington Post

The last issue that Diop disposed of, in collaboration with his Congolese linguist colleague, Theophile Obenga, was that of language. At a landmark symposium in Cairo in 1973, Diop and Obenga showed beyond all doubt what Budge had affirmed nearly 50 years earlier: that Egyptian was fundamentally an African language. The Semitic elements in the language come from late borrowings and, as the noted linguist Joseph Greenberg has attested, from the Semitic languages' own origins in the northeast African group. The Cairo symposium marked the beginning of the end for scholarship that sought to deny Egypt's African origin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/10/11/the-black-roots-of-egypts-glory/1c3faf74-331c-4cc1-a6a0-3535fa3e098a/

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