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Igor Diakonoff

Russian linguist

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Afro-Asiatic languages

  • Distribution of the Afro-Asiatic languages.
    In Afro-Asiatic languages: Origins

    …in the former Soviet Union, Igor Diakonoff, theorized that it arose in what is now the Sahara, from where several subsequent migrations took place after about 5000 bce, including the exit from Africa by speakers of what would become the Semitic languages. Diakonoff accounted for the considerable linguistic diversity of…

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