Despite decent acceptance as a real language family, the state of Afroasiatic reconstruction remains very precarious. Not many basic sound correspondences have been generally accepted, perhaps some trivial ones such as broad stability of the “standard” sonorants *m *n *l…
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Freelance reconstruction 
Is there a “South Cushitic”?
South Cushitic is one of the branches of Cushitic whose unity has been repeatedly debated. Last fall I have taken an initial stance in favor of continuing to recognize at least the wider Rift family, and that also Rift-like features…
Posted in Commentary, Reconstruction