Supporters of a non-North or Northeast African origin for Afroasiatic are particularly common among those with a background in Semitic or Egyptological studies,[REF] or amongst archaeological proponents of the "farming/language dispersal hypothesis" according to which major language groups dispersed with early farming technology in the Neolithic [REF].
In the next phase, unlike many other authors Ehret proposed an initial split between northern, southern and Omotic.