Languages of Africa. Experience in constructing a lexicostatistical classification. Volume 2. East Sudanese languages

The second volume of multi-volume study "Languages ​​of Africa. The experience of building a lexicostatistical classification "is entirely devoted to the problem of the historical status of the East herdan family of languages ​​- the largest component components. Nilo-Sakhakha Macros, one of the most controversial language associations proposed by J.grberg in the framework of the classic status of a taxonomic model of African languages.
Investigation of potential genetic and country ties between the languages ​​of the East herdan family as a whole follows the methodology already tested in the previous volume on the material of Koisansky languages. In addition to solving the main task of the study (the detailed reconstruction of the most stable elements of the basic vocabulary for all branches of the East"s family, with subsequent lexicostatic comparison), the monograph also includes general information of a sociolinguistic and bibliographic nature in all those known at the current time in the current time, and Each of the East herdan branches.
The book is intended for specialists in general, comparative historical and typological linguistics, Africanists of a wide variety of profiles, and a wide cool readers, to one degree or another of the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the reconstruction of linguistic aspects of the prehistory of humanity