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How we could show that Hadza is Afroasiatic: a response to Militarev’s “Hadza as Afrasian?”

Journal of Language Relationship. 2023. Vol. 21. No. 1-2. P. 110–116.
Starostin G.

In this response to Alexander Militarev’s paper on the Afroasiatic (Afrasian) affiliation of Hadza, I attempt to identify the major theoretical issues with his lexicostatistical analysis of the similarities between Hadza and the various branches of the Afroasiatic family, explaining why this analysis cannot be accepted as conclusive, and suggesting some steps that could be taken in order to weed out insignificant evidence (e.g. more attention toward meticulous step-by-step reconstruction of the proto-wordlists potentially involved in such a comparison).

Research target: Philology and Linguistics Humanities
Language: English
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Keywords: Hadzaхадзадальнее родство языковкойсанские языкиафразийские языкиKhoisan languagesAfroasiatic languages
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Traditional Foundations of Modern Oriental Societies: Institutions, Narratives, Practices (2023)
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