“…(1) Semitic, (2) Berber, (3) Ancient Egyptian, (4) Cushitic, (5) Chadic, which was due to Omotic languages having been in his day still classified under West Cushitic until the pioneering studies in the 1970s by H.C. Fleming (1969Fleming ( , 1974Fleming ( , 1976aFleming ( , 1976b and by M.L. Bender (1975), cf.…”