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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Hebrew AMEN and Egytian AMUN - common root?
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 03:56:39 GMT
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In article <3p4f1d$jsr@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
Ivan Derzhanski <iad@cs.brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
>In article <sarimaD8E9ow.MI8@netcom.com> sarima@netcom.com (Stanley 
>Friesen) writes:

>>[Egyptian is closely related to the Semitic languages, and in some
>>classifications may even be treated as an outlier of the Semitic
>>group, [...]]
>
>Does anyone still take those classifications seriously?

Is there some reason to doubt the existence of a Semitic branch of 
the Afro-Asiatic family?

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