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"KVNV of Sheba" isn't as catchy
Is KVNV, a Borean word meaning "woman" (the "V" indicates an unknown vowel) the root word for "queen"? Among much controversy, linguists working for the Evolution of Human Languages (EHL) project are trying to trace the common root of all human languages:
Very tentatively, EHL has grouped the world's languages into three super-superfamilies corresponding to these migrations: those that correspond with the coastal route, which include Papuan languages; those that correspond with the land route out of Africa, descendants of Borean, the best reconstructed; and the "click" languages spoken by the San, or "Bushmen," of southern Africa. Scientists think that the San most resemble the first modern humans. Their language, almost unique in its use of click sounds that perhaps other early languages lost, may best conserve traces of proto-sapiens. (ELHAM)
July 19, 2007
