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The Moors of Spain spoke Arabic, a Semitic language unconnected with the Nilo-Saharan languages suggested here. Before they adopted Arabic and Islam they spoke North African languages more distantly related to Coptic (Egyptian) and Arabic. if there ws a transmission from Italic "amo" to Nilo-Saharan via Moorish Arabic, there's no sign of it, nor is there any evidence of direct transmission from Latin, especially as "amo" didn't have this specialized meaning it does in the later Romance languages of Europe.