Before 15,000 BCE: (The Fourth and Fifth Afrasian Divergences — Pre-Proto-Semitic Spreading North out of Egypt Across Sinai to the Levant Accounting for the …

Before 15,000 BCE: (The Fourth and Fifth Afrasian Divergences — Pre-Proto-Semitic Spreading North out of Egypt Across Sinai to the Levant Accounting for the Proposed Fourth-Millennium BCE Location of Proto-Semitic There, and Proto-Chado-Amazigh Spreading Westward out of Egypt Across the Sahara Accounting for the Later Dispersals of Chadic and Amazigh Languages Across North Africa, the Central and Western Sahara, and the Chad Basin): The earlier of the two further expansions from the Egyptian corner of Africa involved the communities who spoke the particular dialect of proto-North Erythraic that would evolve, over a long span of centuries, into the much later proto-Semitic language. In linguistic terms, this line of descent is called pre-proto-Semitic. A single spread of this community north out of Egypt and across the Sinai accounts in straightforward manner for the proposed, much later fourth-millennium BCE location of the speakers of the proto-Semitic language in the adjacent lands of the Levant. The second further expansion was that of the speakers of the protolanguage of the Chado-Amazigh group, again out of Egypt, but in this case westward across the Sahara — a population spread that accounts with similar parsimony for the later dispersals of the languages of the Chadic and Amazigh subgroups across adjacent regions of North Africa, the central and western Sahara, and the Chad basin. The implication is breathtaking in its simplicity: the Semitic languages — Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, the entire linguistic infrastructure of the ancient Near East — descend from a language that left Africa. The peoples who spoke the ancestors of these languages were Africans who migrated northeastward through Egypt and across the Sinai. The Levant did not send its languages to Africa. Africa sent its languages to the Levant.