Description: This dictionary is a fundamental source of information on the extinct proto-language of the ancient Hamito-Semites, the Proto-Hamito-Semitic language, and contains more than 2,500 reconstructed words.
Review Quotes: 'This immense work, which the editors describe as "devoid of many simple human joys", will stimulate research and imagination in ways previously impossible in Semitic linguistics'.
A.R. Millard, Society for Old Testament Study, 1995.
'An important addition to the growing literature on Hamito-Semitic.'
David I. Owen, Religious Studies Review, 1996.
'This is a courageous work which will help to provide solutions to some dificult lexical problems and also stimulate further study in Hamito-Semitic comparative studies. We are indebted to both authors for their painstaking work.'
Wilfred G. Watson, Studi Epigrafki e Linguistici, 1996.
'The above publication contains ample evidence for reconstructing the basic vocabulary of the Hamito-Semitic (or Afro-Asiatic) nations. At the same time it is the first etymological dictionary of this gigantic language family on the whole.'
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Lingua Posnaniensis.