Völkerkunde von Afrika

work by Westermann

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In Diedrich Westermann
…which was Part 2 of Völkerkunde von Afrika (1940; “Ethnology of Africa”). This major classification of African languages established three major divisions: the Khoisan languages, the Negro languages (including the Sudan, Bantu, and Nilotic), and the Hamito-Semitic languages (since reorganized and now called Afro-Asiatic). In this work, his method was…
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