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| | Afro-Asiatic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Lionel Bender //-->Lionel Bender) has often been suggested, particularly Ethiopia, because it includes the majority of the diversity of the Afro-Asiatic language family and has very diverse groups in close geographic proximity, often considered a telltale sign for a linguistic geographic origin. |
 | | Lionel Bender //-->Lionel Bender (1997) advocates a "Macro-Cushitic" consisting of Berber, Cushitic, and Semitic, while regarding Chadic and Omotic as the most remote from the other branches. |
 | | Olga Stolbova //-->Olga Stolbova (1995) group Berber with Semitic, Chadic with Egyptian, and split Cushitic into five or more independent subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic, seeing it as a Sprachbund rather than a valid subfamily. |
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