Before 15,000 BCE: (The Step-by-Step Expansion from the Horn — An African Origin Accounting with Greatest Parsimony for Each Successively Later Expansion, at…

Before 15,000 BCE: (The Step-by-Step Expansion from the Horn — An African Origin Accounting with Greatest Parsimony for Each Successively Later Expansion, at the Third Stage Only a Single Northward Spread of Proto-North Erythraic Speakers from the Horn Toward Egypt Being Required, Then Just Two Further Single Expansions from the Egyptian Corner of Africa Fully Accounting for Pre-Proto-Semitic Moving Northeast into the Levant and Proto-Chado-Amazigh Moving West Across the Sahara): Even more telling, an origin of the Afrasian family in the Horn of Africa allows us to account with the greatest parsimony for each successively later expansion of the language family. At the third stage in the history of the family, we need postulate only a single northward spread of the ancestral proto-North Erythraic speakers out of the Horn toward Egypt. Following that spread, just two further single expansions outward from the Egyptian corner of Africa fully account for the locations of the remaining divisions of the family. The earlier of those two further expansions involved the communities who carried pre-proto-Semitic northeastward across the Sinai into the Levant. The later expansion carried proto-Chado-Amazigh westward across the Sahara, eventually giving rise to the Chadic languages of the Sahel and the Amazigh languages of the Maghreb. The entire dispersal of the Afrasian family — from the Ethiopian Highlands to the Persian Gulf, from the Sahel to the Mediterranean coast — can be explained by exactly five movements: the initial Omotic-Erythraic split in the Horn, the Cushitic-North Erythraic split nearby, the northward movement to Egypt, the northeastward movement to the Levant, and the westward movement across the Sahara. Five moves. No back-migrations, no mysterious leaps, no population replacements from outside the continent. The simplest reconstruction — the one that satisfies Ockham’s razor most completely — is the African one. Any alternative homeland requires more moves, longer distances, and more implausible scenarios. The language of the pharaohs came from the Horn of Africa, traveling northward along the Nile corridor, and the civilization it would eventually create was the product of that journey.