Talk:Proto-Niger–Congo language

Latest comment: 5 days ago by 2601:42:0:4000:E8D7:9E7D:674:3C20 in topic Reverted changes

NC not generally accepted

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Speak to people who work on these languages, and they'll tell you there is no pNC. Mande is excluded from reconstructions to any significant extent; the reconstructions there are are for proto-Atlantic-Congo. Once pAC and proto-Mande are reconstructed, we may be able to evaluate whether there is anything to NC, but we're not there yet. — kwami (talk) 12:14, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

The edits I reverted were all substantial and uncited. I have no meaningful knowledge on this specific subset of linguistics but if the article is suddenly going to change to make some pretty major claims then it needs to be cited, but I won’t stand in the way of you improving it, for certain. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ 12:37, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reverted changes

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What was the decision making criteria for the following changes being reverted?

Linguistic analyses has also suggested that Niger-Congo speaking hunter-gatherers may have originated from the Kordofanian speakers of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, and then traversed the Sahel to Mali.[1][2][3] 2601:42:0:4000:E8D7:9E7D:674:3C20 (talk) 16:57, 30 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

  1. ^ Blench, Roger (2006). "The Niger-Saharan Macrophylum".
  2. ^ Mulindwa, Julius (2017). "Evidence of population specific selection inferred from 289 genome sequences of Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo linguistic groups in Africa".
  3. ^ "Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa", Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa, De Gruyter Mouton, 2017-08-21, doi:10.1515/9783111562520/html, ISBN 978-3-11-156252-0, retrieved 2024-10-24