Essays on historical and anthropological linguistics. In 2 volumes.

The two-volume collection includes works by V. Ya. Porkhomovsky, published over many years of his scientific activity in various publications - collective monographs, journals, and article collections. These works cover a wide range of topics in comparative-historical and anthropological linguistics.
The first volume includes essays on ethnolinguistics of Socotra. It also presents works on Afro-Asiatic (Semitic-Hamitic) comparative-historical linguistics and African sociolinguistics.
The second volume features works on Afro-Asiatic (Semitic-Hamitic) historical linguistics, genealogical classification of African languages, examination of kinship systems and terms in Afro-Asiatic languages, formation of language norms in proto-literate languages, and strategies for translating the Old Testament into African languages.