ABSTRACT

There can be no doubt that these Languages constitute a Family with a very close affinity to each other. Norris remarks that the entire absence of any Semitic Language in Asia beyond the corner of that vast Continent bordering on Africa, and the existence of several Languages in Africa, having Grammatical and Vocabulary-affinities with the Semitic, radical, and obviously not borrowed, prove that this Family is as much African as Asiatic. The Ethnological Area is one, for the Red Sea unites rather than separates. In this Family as regards Africa there are two Branches.

Northern.

Ethiopic.