Etyma Afroasiatica Nova

Roots with Initial Labials (*b-, *p-, *f-, *m-)

by Gabor Takacs

Book cover: Etyma Afroasiatica Nova

Extent: 235 pages

Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag

Subjects: African Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika

Series volume number: 29

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2016)

ISBN: 9783496015581

Price: $87.00

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The volume presents a piece of the proto-lexicon of Semito-Hamitic or Afro-Asiatic, the language macrofamily with the oldest records in world history. The reconstruction of the underlying parental language is, however, a little cultivated and endangered field known to very few researchers, whose number hardly exceeds one dozen all over the world (half of them is retired) in spite of relatively better established positions of inner Semitological, Egyptological, Berberological, Cushitological, Omotic, and Chadic comparative research and a few attempts in the 1990s by the Russian linguists at reconstructing the root inventory of proto-Semito-Hamitic (proto-Afro-Asiatic), which the present project continues. The volumes of this project contain proto-roots not yet published therein.

  • By (author) Gabor Takacs