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James and Theodora Bynon (ed.): Hamito-Semitica: proceedings of a colloquium held by the Historical Section of the Linguistics Association (Great Britain) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March 1970. (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 200.) 518 pp., 2 plates. The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1975. Guilders 180.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1977

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1 It is to be hoped that wide note will be taken of the opinions expressed frequently at the colloquium concerning the non-entity ‘Hamitic’. A. N. Tucker's attempt to lay the Hamitic ghost (see his paper ‘What's in a name?’) by abandoning the misleading ‘Hamito-Semitic’ is well motivated. Unfortunately the proposed substitute term ‘Erythraic’ is not altogether suitable if one is to give due recognition to the geographical location of Berber and Chadic, and in spite of certain defects one predicts that ‘Afro-Asiatic’ will last a long time.

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