Re: [tied] Re: Afroasiatic

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From: Danny Wier

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:12 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Afroasiatic

A good question. Where indeed? Orel & Stolbova's (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill) and Ehret's (1995) Reconstructing Proto-Afrasiatic (Proto-Afrasian) (Berkeley: U of CA Press) are probably the only publications of their kind to date. AFAIK even Berber evidence is largely ignored by "AA" etymologists as there is no generally accepted Proto-Berber phonological reconstruction or a Berber etymological dictionary, which makes reconstructable Proto-HS/AA look more like some kind of Proto-Semito-Egyptian, with its centre of gravity in the Near East.

 

Piotr

 

 

 

Danny asked:

 

By the way, where can I find a list of reconstructions for these three
branch-languages [Semitic + Egyptian + Berber]?