This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of protoAfroasiatic (protoAfrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historicalcomparative method. It also fully incorporates the most uptodate evidence from the distinctive African branches of the family, Cushitic, Chadic, and Omotic. Using concrete and specific evidence and argument, the author proposes full vowel and consonant reconstructions and a provisional reckoning of tone. Each aspect of these reconstructions is substantiated in detail in an extensive etymological vocabulary of more than 1000 roots. The results, while confirming some previous views on protoAfroasiatic (protoAfrasian), revise or overturn many others, and add much that is new.
This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of protoAfroasiatic (protoAfrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historicalcomparative method. It also fully incorporates the most uptodate evidence from the distinctive African branches of the family, Cushitic, Chadic, and Omotic. Using concrete and specific evidence and argument, the author proposes full vowel and consonant reconstructions and a provisional reckoning of tone. Each aspect of these reconstructions is substantiated in detail in an extensive etymological vocabulary of more than 1000 roots. The results, while confirming some previous views on protoAfroasiatic (protoAfrasian), revise or overturn many others, and add much that is new.
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