Afro-Asiaticist

A form of Afroasiaticist — A linguist who specialises in studying Afroasiatic languages.

Meanings

nounAfro-Asiaticist (plural Afro-Asiaticists)

plural Afro-Asiaticists

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Afroasiaticist.

    Afro-Asiaticists are not generally arguing about the validity of Cushitic as a grouping; Bantuists and Niger-Congo specialists do at times debate on the precise bounds of "Bantu."

    1989 summer, Patrick R. Bennett, “[Review of A Thesaurus of African Languages]”, in Research in African Literatures, volume 20, number 2, Indiana University Press, →ISSN
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    Even more importantly, none of this should let us forget that Kartvelologists as a profession have by and large failed, much like Indo-Europeanists, Afro-Asiaticists, Altaicists, Uralicists, and Dravidianists, to offer a detailed public reaction to Illič-Svityč's work.

    1995 spring/summer, Alexis Manaster Ramer, “On 'Some Thoughts on Indo-European-Kartvelian Relations'”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 23, number 1/2, Institute for the Study of Man, →ISSN, page 205
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