ABSTRACT
The languages of Africa are divided by Greenberg (1963)
of Greenberg (see especially Greenberg 1963) i the older name
was deemed inappropriate because of the lack of evident
unity among the non-Semitic (formerly 'Hamitic') languages
of the family. On the other hand, as Hodge (1970) pOints
Semitic, Egyptlan, Cushitic, Berber, and Chadic cannot be
remains Brockelmann 1908. Brockelmann, though noting (14)
Coptic period, which begins in the second century of the
digraph ou (omicron-upsilon) represent long vowels whose
or on Berber.
