Peace Phamily
Here are some recent thoughts I put into article form for the forum to critique. Here is the abstract below. Due to the amount of graphics and specialized formatting of some of the content, I put each article in a pdf file, so you will have to click on the link below to download the articles.
Abstract
This paper presents a unique way for establishing a better understanding of the meaning of words in various African languages that adhere to the agglutinative process of combining single morphemes to create a larger word. The general understanding of words that are the result of agglutination is that the meaning of these terms are ascertained by a simple combining of two or more morphemes (i.e. indoors = [within] + [doors] ). What I posit in this paper is that in African languages, the rendering of the meaning of words is a bit more complex. By reexamining some lexical items from the Niger-Congo super phylum of languages and their agglutinative properties, we can establish a framework that allows us to better understand the process in which the early architects of African languages used to better communicate ideas. This paper also seeks to establish the agglutinative properties of the ancient iKami (Egyptian) language by comparing our Niger-Congo (Negro-African / per Obenga) lexical items with cognates in kiKami.