Songhay has a word for "camel" with no apparent relationship to any other language family, reconstructible as:
*yòó
This is somewhat puzzling, since camels are not native to Africa. Perhaps it originally referred to a different animal?
Lameen Souag
happy Domestication of the Camel Day
(3000 years is no time at all)
Brían Hanrahan
Migration map of the historical camelid family and the current distribution of Dromedaries (red) and Bactrian camels (green).
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-camel-...
