At 00:35 05.08.03 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote:

>What should we make of the (dismissed) suggestions that Omotic is
>Nilo-Saharan, not Afro-Asiatic?

Nothing. Or maybe read a few classics like Ehret's Reconstructing
Afroasiatic (which, unlike the stuff of the Moscow school, is
understandable... <g>), the Omotic language studies ed. by Hayward,
Bender's Comparative Omotic morphology... also Ehret's Nilo-Saharan...

Enjoy! These are very interesting lgs. ...

Heike