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1. Leo Reinisch (1909) had already proposed linking Cushitic and Chadic, while urging their more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic.
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- his suggestion
- little acceptance
- a distinct "Hamitic" subgroup
- a Chadic language
- his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary
- Joseph Greenberg's 1950 work
- the widespread rejection
- a language category
- Meinhof's linguistic theories
- racial and social evidence
- a separate "Nilo-Hamitic" language category
- a view
- Meinhof's so-called Nilo-Hamitic languages
- their appropriate Nilotic siblings
- ) the Chadic languages
- the new name
- Almost all scholars
- the new and continued consensus
- Greenberg's model
- Meinhof's additions
- other language families
- notably Nilo-Saharan
- the Khoekhoe language
- the Khoisan languages
- a grouping
- the Tanzanian Hadza
- linguistic isolates
- Greenberg's classification
- a starting point
- modern work
- the Hamitic category
- its extension
- no part
- the three traditional branches
- an exclusive (monophyletic) phylogenetic unit
- other Afroasiatic languages
- these branches
- an independent subgroup
- the larger Afroasiatic family
- an independent branch