Questions tagged [afroasiatic]
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Validity of aging estimation for Proto-Afro-Asiatic
Tl;dr: What reasons do we have--besides glottochronology--to think that Proto-Afro-Asiatic is actually 14,000 years old?
So, if you know much about proto-languages, you might know that Proto-Afro-...
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How strong was the r/l distinction in Proto-Afro-Asiatic?
The East Asian languages do not distinguish r and l. The PIE had r/l alternation in suffixes: -tlom/-trom, -dhlom/-dhrom, -ter/-tel, -ros/-los.
What can be said in this context about Afro-Asiatic ...
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What are these "unexplained similarities" between Celtic languages and languages from North Africa?
In the section "The linguistic relationship of Welsh" from the book "Modern Welsh: a comprehensive grammar" by Gareth King we can find the following quote:
Celtic also shows
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