Topic summary
Ethio-Semitic
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ethio-Semitic languages.
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Ethio-Semitic languages do not share many common innovations. Marcel Cohen and Harold C. Fleming suggested that they could represent two separate branches of Semitic that had independently migrated to Africa. Current research outlines reasons to consider Ethio-Semitic a genetic group, and notes an absence of reasons for any alternative classification within Semitic.