J1 and J2

Sandra Rimmer on the Near East: J1 and J2. J1 is ancestrally transEuphratean; J2, Canaani.

Like R1a and R1b, the J Bros ended up with very similar languages. J1 ended up Akkadian, Aramaean, and Arabic in succession (Quraysh are J1c3d). J2 spread to Carthage. Recall that the Aramaean language actually is a Canaani language in its Middle Bronze origin. I suspect that the Near Eastern Orient was Sumerian and Elamite, subsequently Semitised.

The Kohens are ambiguous: some J1 M267, others J2a. The Babylonian Exile may account for this.

North Africa, besides J1 and J2, doesn't seem to have changed much. Rather like these and like R1a and R1b, here there is E-M81 and E-M78. E-M78 looks like Garamantes and Imazighen. E-M81 looks like Kabyle and other pre-Latin "Berber". But their languages are recognisably related, even in antiquity.

One question I have is about Egypt in the Bronze Age, why this isn't marked on the map. Weren't their pharaohs I2 (and not J1)? Also not on the map: Ethiopia. The baseline is E, likely from the Oromo / Somalian "Kushites" who were there first. J1 is also strong there.

This is telling me that Semitised J1 North Arabians flooded down to Arabia Felix at the end of Bronze Age, and thence jumped off to Ethiopia.