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1. It was the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) who restricted Hamitic to the non-Semitic languages in Africa, which are characterized by a grammatical gender system.
2. Among other works, his books include Amharic Verb Morphology (his PhD dissertation - a generative study of Amharic verbal morphology), Language in Ethiopia (co-edited with C. Ferguson, C. Bowen, R. Cooper), Nilo-Saharan Language Studies, The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary, Omotic Verb Morphology, and the Berta Lexicon.
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- a grammatical gender system
- This "Hamitic language group
- mainly North-African
- the Ancient Egyptian language
- the Berber languages
- the Cushitic languages
- the Chadic languages
- the Hamitic group
- These classifications
- non-linguistic anthropological and racial arguments
- Both authors
- the skin-color
- other characteristics
- native speakers
- their arguments
- particular languages
- der Hamiten
- "The Languages
- the Hamites
- Lepsius's model
- Meinhof's model
- Meinhof's system
- the Hamitic languages
- cattle herding peoples
- essentially Caucasian origins
- the 'Negroes
- the so-called Nilo-Hamitic languages
- the typological feature
- a "fallacious theory
- language mixture
- earlier work
- Nilotic languages
- numerous similarities
- other Nilotic languages
- their more distant affinity
- his suggestion
- little acceptance
- a distinct "Hamitic" subgroup
- a Chadic language
- his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary