Afroasiatic languages:
Bibliography
See L. H. Gray, Introduction to Semitic Comparative Linguistics (1934); M. A. Bryan, Notes on the Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa (1947); S. Moscati, ed., An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (1964); J. H. Greenberg, The Languages of Africa (2d ed. 1966); D. L. E. O'Leary, Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (1923, repr. 1969); J. J. McCarthy, Formal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology (1985); G. Khan, Studies in Semitic Syntax (1989).
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Egyptian Languages
- The Semitic Languages
- The Berber Languages
- The Cushitic and Omotic Languages
- The Chadic Languages
- The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems
- Bibliography
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