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Meroitic: an Afroasiatic language?

Kirsty Rowan, 2006. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 14, pp. 169 to 206.

Argues that Meroitic's sound inventory and phonotactics resemble Afroasiatic languages more than Nilo-Saharan ones, against the Eastern Sudanic classification.

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The main published alternative to Rilly's classification.

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Rowan, K. (2006). Meroitic: an Afroasiatic language?. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 14, pp. 169 to 206. https://soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/350106/meroitic-an-afroasiatic-language
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