Not strictly an ox, but definitely an aurochnoid.). Oktober 1992 in Zrich., 31524. They understand that perfectly well, and their method is designed to discover them in the dataset, i.e. I am not sure. Kitchen et al. Id use Wow! instead. That may not change your point much. The majority of the J1 haplogroup chromosomes in our dataset coalesce around 5.6 (95% CI, 4.86.5) kya, agreeing with a potential Bronze Age expansion; however, we did find rarer earlier diverged lineages coalescing 17 kya (Figure S2). I wanted to find that publication by Puhvel, the spread of features across already-established language boundaries. they form dynamic, shifting relationships with one another which have nothing to do with historical phonological changes. (We do not speak of Chomskyans. Wiktionary among the proto-Slavic meanings of the wild part (dik-) lists wild animal, especially wild boar. Roger, on the other hand, seems to think Nilo-Saharan is not only real but obviously real, in which case the observed similarities would be evidence for subgrouping. Looks like an iterative that forms part of a Kluge mess to me. The noun classes of Bantu languages fall under this type as well, again with a very loose correlation with semantic categories. Greens Dictionary of Slang Nick Jainschigg Typically, the advocates of the new mathematical methods have worked with the more transparent phyla, where scholars largely agree. So, while fish in their wild state were all different kinds of kud, the activities that transformed fish into culturally significant products were a little more fine-grained in their taxonomy. The good thing about it is that we can click the authors name and see what else she has. Greek and type). (Ive seen quite a number of plainly erroneous statements about individual Western Oti-Volta languages which would have been avoided if the authors had looked even a little at the related languages comparative work has unequivocal value in understanding contemporary phenomena. An article on su merced is downloadable here: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=198213. Lexicon is more chaotic, any grammatical subsystem is still a system and it can collapse as a system. We recognize significant centrifugal linguistic forces. Manessy seems not to have realised that the Atakora is a Sprachbund: we can see this because of Boulba itself, in fact: although its definitely WOV, it shares all but two of the sound changes that Manessy took as diagnostic of Eastern (and one of the other two is shared with the Gurma languages.) Its striking how few African names show up in the footnotes of African linguistics papers, even in works published in 2016. My theory is that Blench has spent too much time on fieldwork in areas without internet access to be fully up to speed with developments in website design over the past couple of decades . Everything could be. 5) the same question to Romance porcupine words: did they actually meant a porcupine in the Middle Ages, or did they mean hedgehog like Germanic words with the same meaning? (In a good way ). (Now youve got me curious. The Ugaritic writing system, however, departs markedly from the other Canaanite scripts in that its symbols are of cuneiform shape. Thanks for the linked paper, Ryan: interesting again. But speakers and their preferences are the medium where language exists and evolves, no way its evolution can be wholly independent from this:). 1) fiske, fiskfngst. Population sizes within the region started diverging 1520 kya, when Levantines expanded while Arabians maintained smaller populations that derived ancestry from local hunter-gatherers. From which it follows that the Germanic languages originated in the North Sea. Then theres an interesting idea I once saw somewhere on academia.edu, that Proto-Semitic was spoken in the Rub al-Khali before it dried out, and East Semitic spread north while West Semitic spread in a semicircle along the coast of Arabia are different. Swahili Kisu kimoja kilitosha One knife was enough. Studies [] have revealed deep and substantive similarities with amniotes in the braincase ([2 papers by some of the other authors]). 2009: Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. throw < OE to twist, turn (transitivity??) Following Isaac Schapera and rejecting Meinhof, he classified the Khoekhoe language as a member of the Khoisan languages, a grouping that has since proven inaccurate and excessively motivated on the presence of click sounds. Another commonality is the general development observed across children from rote-learning of unanalyzed items to partial productivity followed by command of structure-dependent rules and generalizations, which are subsequently constrained by conventions of lexical and discourse usage. (I created a handy summary of the various Moba verb morphology patterns for my own use: I manage to get it down to a mere twenty pages. It was a typo. Go to The Use of Reconstructed Proto-Forms and see the 2nd graph on terms for mud, where youll see how g and d and their geminates interact. (Proto-Bantu, for example, is pretty solid, despite the fact that there are no sources going back more than a few centuries.) The word for horse cant be reconstructed for Proto-Oti-Volta, though it can for Proto-Western. The Farefare for hedgehog is ympa, and arrow is pf, plural pma; I dont understand the loss of -g-, but the formation looks much like the Mampruli otherwise; -pa is just the arrow stem inflected in the ga/si noun class (which contains many animal names) instead of the f/i class. Of all these proposals, the most controversial is what may be called the Inter-Saharan Hypothesis. I get the impression that the Romans were not keen on navigating in the River Ocean if they could help it. https://mathildasanthropologyblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/rspb20090408.pdf, The field of Semitic linguistics has generally coalesced around a model that places the ancient Mesopotamian language Akkadian as the most basal lineage of Semitic, Nope. Old English/Old High German r, Old Norse r). Probably. They were actually quite lazy in only using presence/absence of cognate lexemes as data. Wait. Language Log The Perception of Indo-European in Greece. Languages online YBP = years before present (presumably 1950 as typical in that sort of thing), so the dates are 850 BC for Akkadian, 150 AD for Aramaic, 250 AD for Geez, 650 BC for Hebrew, and 1450 BC for Ugaritic. Comparativist heaven. Schleicher published six years before the O.S., and he and Darwin exchanged letters. (In the place of production sense, Danish also has mejeri = dairy which is probably older than bageri. (There is a more indirect reflex of it in word-initial preconsonantal position: an epenthetic vowel *hsti, *hsnti > e-es-ti, a-san-zi and likewise for a bunch of other verbs.). Lately, scholars seeking the mechanisms for secondary state formation have focused on local trajectories distinct from the Mesopotamian model, a case in point being the dry-farming region of the Jezireh. Did he legitimately think that Proto-Potou-Akanic had triple vowels? My view (in contrast) is, for example, that the vast and diverse Volta-Congo family, extending from Cte dIvoire to South Africa and comprising languages as unalike as Kusaal, Yoruba and Zulu, is proven beyond all reasonable doubt (quite wonderful enough to be going on with, if you ask me); but that the evidence that Mande belongs to it is extremely weak; parts or all of Atlantic may turn out to to be related but the relationship (if so) is so distant that it may never be rigorously demonstrable. This was before the Day of the Trawler. The Standard of Ur was captioned IM IN UR. >It is actually by no means clear that even Eastern Sudanic is a real entity at all: His argument is that morhological reconstruction simply does not work for Mande, Well, there is comparatively little morphology to reconstruct. So there you are. Yes. . Slavenitsa (converts from modern Russian to pre-reform orthography) ), Roger, on the other hand, seems to think Nilo-Saharan is not only real but obviously real. In general, I have to insist that areal linguistics, and contact linguistics more broadly, are or at least should be every bit as fundamental to historical linguistics as reconstruction and phylogeny. I was also interested that Rilly mentioned doing continuing fieldwork on two Nubian languagesgenerating some of that influx of new data. Thanks. Thus, the noun cattus cat is only attested in late Latin sources. Its very hard for me to understand what dynamics would allow a trade language to wipe out the preexisting languages in a pre-state setting with only limited trade. Greenberg refuted Meinhofs linguistic theories and rejected the use of racial and social evidence. If cattle come from the Levant, as seems to be the mainstream theory today, Nabta Playa seems like an indication Levantine culture or at least technology was spreading thorough much of the area where AA languages are now spoken at an early date. If it was from Latin or Greek, I honestly do not know what were the main book Latin and Greek words for porcupine:(. Yes, textbooks are not good, by maybe we then should be angry at them and not at the paper that merely says a detailed reconstruction of the Proto-Mande language, based on strict methodological principles is necessary. There are. However, there are also big variations in the oxygen content of the water, which could have a big effect on metabolic rates. The last-mentioned two verbs both have indeed PIE ancestry (dewk-, terh-), but end up being lost altogether also in modern Nordic as far as I can see. Certainly there is reason for skepticism and continued research. to pick an IE homeland in Anatolia, but they used a computer. Now I am less sure. Bantu. But that will be GIGO. I am not sure if ikhths-uvis-jukn is a good ground , it is imperfect because of that Greek i, but if we assume paleo-Balto-Graeco-Armenian laringeal, it starts looking nice. Catherine Obianuju Acholonu & Erich Fred Legner Review of a paper presented at the Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and the Challenges of the 21 st Century, Institute of African Studies, UNN, Nsukka. Moreover, Oti-Volta class affixes are suffixed, not prefixed, and they are relatively loose, which expresses itself in the pervasive compounding of nouns (as bare stems) and modifiers. Its not, but if you already know what its supposed to mean, its recognizable. It is recognized in literary languages, but it is just one possible example, namely literary languages, and descriptive linguistics ignores it even there. Both authors used the skin-color, mode of subsistence, and other characteristics of native speakers as part of their arguments that particular languages should be grouped. De qu color es este pez? (1) an event: people from islands A and C together colonized island B and created mixed population Tomorrow Ill dig up the quotes from the paper I coauthored in 2020 where we managed to handle the fact that we didnt even agree on whether the species we were describing was an amphibian or an amniote. fish. I still think that collective/mass is a different meaning. Comanche, Apaches, and Navajo would eventually have overwhelmed the sedentary earth lodge peoples in the north (the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa, who were seriously weakened already by the middle of the XIXc) and maybe the Pueblo tribes in the south (Zuni, Hopi, et al). In the specific case of Gldemann 2008, you have a bunch of weak similarities across a vast area which need to be accounted for by some combination of common ancestry, contact, and coincidence; proposing that they are to be explained by contact and not by common ancestry is a historical hypothesis with direct relevance to questions of genetic relationship, and in this case a clearly defensible one. Thanks really goes to Dmitry. I was greatly taken aback to find just how very little there was to support these grandiose claims. The location of Proto-Semitic is deduced as follows: The presence of ancient members of the two oldest Semitic groups (East and West Semitic) in the same region of the Levant, combined with a possible long interval (1003000 years) between the origin of Semitic and the appearance of Akkadian in Sumer, suggests a Semitic origin in the northeast Levant and a later movement of Akkadian eastward into Mesopotamia and Sumer. In other words, pick a spot between Proto East Semitic and Akkadian, and call it a homeland. Structure dependence emerges when these lexical units are combined in simple-clause structure, realized by morphosyntactic markings of verbargument relations. Surprisingly to me, Egypt seems relatively unexplored. Proto-Afroasiatic) was spoken. It would be surprizing if any competent users of Spanish applied the word pescado to a live fish. I though aha! and apparently ! Besides, derivational processes depend on a level of vocabulary expansion not achieved by young preschool age. It seems, India is polyichthious, but I know too little about the region. .] Cant remember where I got my copy . Someone else could comment on this more knowledgeably, but I dont like this argument., I dont like it too, but popularity of the profession indeed depends on (1) its prestige (2) other opportunities (3) finding people who just want to do it (who too feel better when there is a thriving community of enthusiasts). Oti-Volta-Land is (mostly) a whole lot safer: long may it remain so. TypeIt (IPA keyboards, language character sets) Arnold Zwickys list of blogs and resources Some scholars had thought that the bundling of areal traits, clustering at the boundaries of a linguistic area, might be necessary for defining a linguistic area, though this has proven a poor criterion. Copyright 2023 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. >Do we actually have enough evidence to say that the Natufians went from the Levant into Egypt, rather than from Egypt into the Levant? Several of them appear to make no sense. It is just a dialect. In teaching us pescado, I assume our textbook writers were trying to ward off possible confusion when we heard it in conversation. and peces in the second question would tell the waiter in no uncertain terms that the speaker wanted to eat live fish. Im not saying everyone would be excited by it. How linguistic areas are defined has been subject to considerable debate. However, the Plains Indian model is incomplete, its evolution was forcibly interrupted by the US Government, so we dont know what would have been the end result. And yes, on a walk after writing, I considered that religion might be something that could elevate a prestige language among foragers. As a native speaker of Spanish, I stand by my characterisation. , that is, (beast) of a wild image, species. (I apologize for the extended analogy and Im not sure if its actually appropriate.). In this case, if you decreed beforehand that h matched any velar or labial-velar it would give you the right answer for die, though not river; it would give you the wrong answer for the certain cognates Kusaal suo, Nawdm hmga hare.. : for a European AA is Semitic and also languages similar to it. Unfortunately the (online version of the?) This has been demonstrated, for example, for how children acquire the semantics, morphology, and syntax of causative verbs in three typologically distinct languages: English at the more analytic or syntactic end of the scale, Hebrew with relatively synthetic bound morphology, and Inuktitut as a polysynthetic language which marks causativity by both morphological and lexical means (Allen, in Lieven, 1998). Was it the objective of these tribes to replace the sedentary tribes or even rule them? As the loss is unique to WOV within Oti-Volta*, its by no means a natural tendency within the group, so it perhaps does call for some sort of explanation of that kind. This is an old one corresponding to Ger. Regionalisms. Somehow. Kmmel has been collecting evidence that the same holds for *h. 2) what is the English cognate of Stachel/stekel? Coffi Sambinis Le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental, . Quite recently, additional examples of Proto-Sinaitic writing have been discovered near the ancient city of Thebes, at Wadi el-Hol, perhaps dating back to as early as 1900 BC. I dont think that replacing the sedentary tribes was the objective, but I think that they equestrian raids would put such a load on these peoples that they couldnt survive. And there is a full grammar of Agolle Kusaal by Anthony Agoswin Musah (but mine is cheaper.). There seem to be a lot of coincidences of population movement that align with Out of Natufian, that you have to wave away to believe Afroasiatic Out of Africa. 2005), Successfully I copied them right. not possible to initiate [my emphasis] the process of reconstruction until large numbers of probably cognate grammatical and lexical items are available to compare, and until a subgrouping hypothesis exists to ensure that all parts of the phylum are properly represented. All other messages and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily state or reflect those of languagehat.com. The article is part of an issue of Human Molecular Genetics surveying the genetics of Africa. Examples are Kusaal siinf bee, siind honey; wd hunter, wog deep bush country; zua friend, zuod friendship; sabua girlfriend, lover, sabuod romantic liaison and lots more. The word cannot be very old, it should be possible to find out when and by whom it was coined. Linguistic analyses: The non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa. The rise of state institutions, temple economies, historical writing, in short, civilization, is a hallmark of Sumer and Egypt, c. 3000BCE. Bits of Greenbergs Ubangi dont belong (his Adamawa-Eastern was a real mess) but Senoufo definitely is related. I was doing some Swadesh-100 type stuff myself with the Oti-Volta languages for a paper that I shall release to a grateful world if it ever gets to a state where I cant pick huge holes in it myself. Therefore were off to a good start and need to continue refining our method. Anyone who imposes a very specific requirement can find herself in the same situation as a certian internet poliglot who says that you cant learn a foreign language without listening to it (like learning to play violin without actually trying). But could this article on an Old Nubian letter help you believe his assertion that The /g/ is just the development of an ancient *d as aneffect of dissimilation is more than just cherry-picking. This doesnt make much sense to me. But how much has changed in the two years! Obviously, the bit about the spread of Semitic languages is of prime LH interest; heres a relevant snippet: In addition to the local ancestry from Epipaleolithic/Neolithic people, we found an ancestry related to ancient Iranians that is ubiquitous today in all Middle Easterners (orange component in Figure 1B; Table 1). fieldwork in areas without internet access yes, I consider Opera with Presto engine a very good browser and it was exactly popular in Africa. His proposed Proto-NES form for sister as given there is *kdt, however. Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal typology and linguistic reconstruction. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Middle East. Proc. . and founded the first Semitic Empire at Kish. However, Nawdm is very aberrant lexically overall in the context of the whole Oti-Volta family, whereas Swadesh-style comparison puts Yom comfortably close to Buli/Konni and Western Oti-Volta. urohon; and still so in Karelian) shifted to the more common inflection type -os : -okse-. by johnydon22 ( m ): 7:38am On Nov 07, 2015 Op Yahweh is a semitic deity and it has Semitic origin and has attributes of many older semtic deities showing it developed theological attributes and anthropomorphical attributed gradually. In the linguistic areas described above, the number and kind of shared traits vary considerably. In each column (character), the same letter (state) for two langauges means cognates. Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary what seems to have happened is that they have assumed that the evident primary division of Semitic into Akkadian-Eblaite versus The Rest shows that everything is basically derived from Akkadian, or something pretty Akkadian-like, at any rate. Dagaare is the French of Western Oti-Volta. It illustrates the family by using the original sentence with living. The absolute frame of reference penetrating English grammar. Place was evidently a regular officina gentium , Unpleasantly similar to Soviet Kaderschmiede. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 5. bis 9. Who viewed me in a thoughtful way, (I may be unfair. Is there a mechanism among bands of hunter-gatherers that would have systematically done that across a region as large as that in which even non-Bantu Niger-Congo is spoken, other than demic replacement? : I wonder if any Hatters have deeper knowledge. where in the observed sequences of the same gene in different taxa the insertion/deletion mutations have happened), which always seems to be done by software these days, so its always reproducible if nothing else. No evidence is offered for this so the case is hard to assess. I keep forgetting to ask what the singulative of mud, silt means. And this part is entirely absent from normal linguistical and sociolinguistical description. This reminds me of the large number of metallurgical and agricultural words in Sumerian and Akkadian that are loan words from unknown origins. He is objecting to the claim that regardless of quality of lexical evidence, in absence of grammatical reconstruction we cant establish a relationship. I take it that the standard languages are meant. However, from the perspective of expected word-order co-occurrences, these word-order arrangements are not independent traits, but reflect the diffusion of a single complex feature, the overall SOV word-order type with its tendency for the various expected coordinated orderings in typologically interrelated constructions to co-occur. There is: you sit down and investigate the slightly different datasets and the decisions to pick up cognacy judgments from prior researchers or use their own, consider grammatical data or only use lexical data, use variations on the methods of calculation etc.. The really striking thing about the paper for me was how overwhelmingly Natufian the ancestry of Arabian Arabs is. Now if I and a Martian both say okh blya! when we hurt a toe, is this trivial or interesting? Proposed locations include the Horn of Africa, North Africa, the Eastern Sahara and the Levant. But I admit again its a relatively naive expectation. Sabkha is somewhat similar. (Blench has argued for 1, with Chadic being somehow most closely related to Cushitic, but that makes no sense to me.). This Proto-Canaanite script is the immediate ancestor of the Phoenician script (appearing in the eleventh century BC), which is in turn the source of the ancient Hebrew (ca. pigs, swines, boars, pork, and what not. But as it happens, Gldemann does do both: for a more reconstruction-centric example, cf. ), Im fairly sure that a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the currently spoken Germanic languages based on Swadesh lists would show that English was basal.. I assume the quote is from something that was linked, but I didnt find that either. Pama-Nyungan is substantially less diverse than Greenbergs Niger-Congo (though as this is itself mysterious, I suppose I may be accused of obscurum per obscurius.) Though given todays news, it might have been more topical for me to find new scholarship on Kehf el-Boroud! These papers are usually published in hard sciencejournals rather than linguistics outlets. I dont know what he means by conclusive significance:/, >2000 years is not actually a long time compared with the probable time depth of NES: these languages are nowhere near as closely related to one another as the Germanic or the Romance languages. Sigh.). Hmm. This is plausible enough with many of the Kwa languages, but already runs in trouble with Atlantic, where the classes certainly are typologically very like Bantu classes but the actual form-meaning correspondences are only discernible by wishful thinking with the exception of the human and liquid classes. Kordofanian is not a unity; Greenberg himself admitted that his evidence for lumping it into his Niger-Congo was nearly all typological. (Partly because Wiktionary let me down for the LG form, so I jumped to Romance). some 20% of the most basic vocabulary of this outlier language, and a bit of the grammar, is AA, https://www.oocities.org/gdvbqz/ling/eafricamap2.gif, Id say contact with AA is rather more plausible than contact with Khoe-San. In fact, contact with AA is an absolute certainty , (though Maarten Mous grammar of Iraqw, to be fair, says that currently, at any rate, there is little contact between these two groups apart from the Iraqw obtaining honey from the Hadza in exchange for tobacco.). These emerge relatively early in Turkish compared with European or Semitic languages. Maybe its for the best, then. This suggests one of two possibilities: either the word for fish entered Proto-Albanian from Latin in Imperial times, as fish was an imported item, or was later borrowed from Adriatic Romance varieties in post-imperial times as Proto-Albanian was expanding at the expense of Romance. Under this approach, the Macro-Sudan belt is genealogically highly heterogeneous. without analysing any arguments in detail. At Nabta Playa it was initially cows, later on also goats, in a semidesert environment probably incapable of supporting wild cattle, with some evidence for seasonal transhumance; a short intro: http://www.kar.zcu.cz/studium/materialy/egy/texty-pro-studenty-2012/NabtaPlaya.pdf. n person nb people) but its affinity is clear from lexical correspondences, which also include things like the pronoun system. The problem is, you have no idea how that sausage is made. Logeion (Greek-to-English and Latin-to-English dictionary search) But in the absence of morphological evidence the uncertainty is inevitably greater, and if your lexical evidence is not particularly strong you may end up unable to prove the relationship satisfactorily at all. @DE, wait, primitive peoples can use the same word as an adjective, noun and verb and can only express relations between words by (primitively) placing them in different positions in an utterance with respect to each other. The evidence from Egypt only shows one language, and that is surely the language of the rulers, a uniformity that we can assume was imposed by the regime that developed the method of writing we know it from. These all derived from the same earlier The failure to develop methods for distinguishing innovations and probable innovations from shared features that cannot be so identified is a fundamental weakness of historical-comparative theory that we need not continue to tolerate. Other claims made in that paper are also weak, though not quite as spectacularly so. I again ask, in pre-state settings with limited trade goods, how would linguistic uniformity across broad areas arise, except through significant population replacement. For example, the tropical seas are full to the gills (heh) with nutrient-rich plankton, while there is less in the icy arctic. (Theyve misspelled both Taforalt and Kehf el Boroud. Yes, its about all but three Uralic languages being threatened to various extents. Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean is a large language family of about 300 languages that are I learn from Google Translate that Russian has a very cute (but not so spiky) two-letter word for hedgehog. Though I wouldnt object to having Spanish Spanish voseo as an alternative to whatever the Ustedes version is called, I am in Europe after all and I do have plans to visit Spain much before going back to Latin America. downweighting such characters or simply counting the whole complex as a single character. as independent units and the abstract analysis reflects a level of meta-analysis necessary for linguists but not the average speaker. Yes: this is a combination of whataboutery, a remarkable misrepresentation of the actual activities of some notorious splitters, and (worst of all) a surprising failure to grasp the relevance of demonstrating contact phenomena and mapping typology when it comes to avoiding mistaken conclusions about genetic relationships. Whats happened here is that the textbooks simply take Manessys classification as a given. Turns out that Nabta is a nearby local place name, and Playa is a technical term for the local relief feature specifically, a technical term that is typically used in the (south)western USA, and consequently familiar to the University of Colorado archaeologists who discovered the site. Actual experts on Atlantic agree that its three parts are far too diverse for it to form a single Niger-Congo branch: theyd all individually be at the same sort of level as Volta-Congo. Often one trait may spread out and extend across a greater territory than another trait, whose territory may be more limited, so that their boundaries do not coincide (bundle). I got that from his list of NES protoforms (irritatingly, there seem to be no page numbers on the paper.) Well, yes, Blench is right: Gldemann here is not interested in genetic relationship. Theres one innovation that may track some part of the general southward migration: fortis plosives are aspirated, at least word-initially, in all of North Germanic, and in West Germanic both north and south of an aspiration-free belt that covers the Netherlands and extends all the way east across Germany. bab.la Which probably means that as things stand, using putative inflectional morphology for comparison would be circular reasoning. In Oman/Yemen they have both and variations of , this one is at least obvious. Blench likes the first proposal (Afroasiatic). Multitran may testify to the arrival of these new population groups. list for which it is diminutive. A similar thing has happened with the loanword pysgodyn fish, though that one seems also to have involved some creative reanalysis of Latin piscatus as a Welsh plural form. Bits of Greenbergs Ubangi dont belong ( his Adamawa-Eastern was a real mess ) but its affinity is from! 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