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Christopher Ehret. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary. In the series University of California Publications in Linguistics 126. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995. Pp. xvii + 557. US$62.00 (softcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Alan S. Kaye*
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California State University/Fullerton

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1996

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