Re: Egyptian based Conlangs

Josh Roth wrote:

> Amost :-) Amharic is a Semitic language!
Can you provide a reference for this?  Ruhlen (who is pretty
sound on the lower branches of the tree, whatever you think of
his top-level stuff), the Ethnologue, Comrie's _World's Major
Languages_ all agree: Amharic is not Semitic.

The term "Hamito-Semitic" is an old name for Afroasiatic, the
family to which these branches belong.  (It was dropped because
it falsely implied a bilateral division between Semitic and
non-Semitic lgs which does not exist.)

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        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)