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This is very hypothetical, but if we were to assume that Levant PPN people spoke proto-AA, then the migrations of that population detected through ancient dna might give us a picture of AA migrations.
Cushitic: a result of a migration from the PPN Levant to Arabia first, and then to Eastern Africa.
Berber: colonization of North Africa by Levantine Neolithic people.
Chadic: a movement south from the same North African wave.
Semitic: Levant Neolithic people migrated north and east to some parts of the Caucasus and Iran, this wave has evidence in the admixture of Iran Chalcolithic, where 20% of the ancestry is from the Levant. and linguistically in the Elamite language which show influence from afro asiatic. a major back migration from Iran/Caucasus to the Levant formed the Levant BA population, and the first appearance of Haplogroup J in the Levant. further BA movements east and south of the Levant spread Semitic languages.
see : Proto Semitic; dating and locating it.
Egyptian: because of the presence of Caucasus/Iran ancestry in Ancient Egyptian samples, albeit lower than that of the Levant, I think proto-Egyptians were either a related tribe to proto-Semites (Egypto-Semitic is a clade within Afro-Asiatic), or that they received admixture from them in the Levant, and then migrated to Egypt in early Bronze Age, I wonder if there is archaeological evidence of this ?
These are not necessarily all of the AA tribes, lost pre-historic branches of AA that stayed in the Levant, or followed the coastal path north to the Aegean or Cyprus are possible. I don't think Anatolian Neolithic people spoke an AA language, difference in admixture, Y-dna, and pre-IE languages of Europe are suggestive of another lost language family, probably related to some languages in the Caucasus. I think Etruscan and the Tyrsenian family were the only remnants from that large group.
Cushitic: a result of a migration from the PPN Levant to Arabia first, and then to Eastern Africa.
Berber: colonization of North Africa by Levantine Neolithic people.
Chadic: a movement south from the same North African wave.
Semitic: Levant Neolithic people migrated north and east to some parts of the Caucasus and Iran, this wave has evidence in the admixture of Iran Chalcolithic, where 20% of the ancestry is from the Levant. and linguistically in the Elamite language which show influence from afro asiatic. a major back migration from Iran/Caucasus to the Levant formed the Levant BA population, and the first appearance of Haplogroup J in the Levant. further BA movements east and south of the Levant spread Semitic languages.
see : Proto Semitic; dating and locating it.
Egyptian: because of the presence of Caucasus/Iran ancestry in Ancient Egyptian samples, albeit lower than that of the Levant, I think proto-Egyptians were either a related tribe to proto-Semites (Egypto-Semitic is a clade within Afro-Asiatic), or that they received admixture from them in the Levant, and then migrated to Egypt in early Bronze Age, I wonder if there is archaeological evidence of this ?
These are not necessarily all of the AA tribes, lost pre-historic branches of AA that stayed in the Levant, or followed the coastal path north to the Aegean or Cyprus are possible. I don't think Anatolian Neolithic people spoke an AA language, difference in admixture, Y-dna, and pre-IE languages of Europe are suggestive of another lost language family, probably related to some languages in the Caucasus. I think Etruscan and the Tyrsenian family were the only remnants from that large group.