'This volume is a wonderfully comprehensive and yet entirely accessible compilation of where we stand today in the study of Afroasiatic, one the world's most important established deep-time language families.' Chris Ehret, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1. Introduction Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay; 2. Berber Maarten Kossmann; 3. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Antonio Loprieno and Matthias Mueller; 4. Semitic Gene B. Gragg and Robert D. Hoberman; 5. Chadic Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay; 6. Cushitic Maarten Mous; 7. Omotic Azeb Amha; 8. Typological outline of the Afroasiatic phylum Zygmunt Frajzyngier.