Vladimir Orel, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, is Senior Lecturer of Historical Linguistics at Tel Aviv
University. He has published extensively on Indo-European and
Afro-Asiatic historical linguistics.
Olga Stolbova, Ph.D. (1980) in Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics in
Moscow. Her interests are mainly in the field of Chadic languages.
'This immense work, which the editors describe as "devoid of many
simple human joys", will stimulate research and imagination in ways
previously impossible in Semitic linguistics'.
A.R. Millard, Society for Old Testament Study, 1995.
'An important addition to the growing literature on
Hamito-Semitic.'
David I. Owen, Religious Studies Review, 1996.
'This is a courageous work which will help to provide solutions to
some dificult lexical problems and also stimulate further study in
Hamito-Semitic comparative studies. We are indebted to both authors
for their painstaking work.'
Wilfred G. Watson, Studi Epigrafki e Linguistici, 1996.
'The above publication contains ample evidence for reconstructing
the basic vocabulary of the Hamito-Semitic (or Afro-Asiatic)
nations. At the same time it is the first etymological dictionary
of this gigantic language family on the whole.'
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, Lingua Posnaniensis.
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