The volume presents a piece of the proto-lexicon of Semito-Hamitic or
Afro-Asiatic, the language macrofamily with the oldest records in world
history. The reconstruction of the underlying parental language is,
however, a little cultivated and endangered field known to very few
researchers, whose number hardly exceeds one dozen all over the world
(half of them is retired) in spite of relatively better established
positions of inner Semitological, Egyptological, Berberological,
Cushitological, Omotic, and Chadic comparative research and a few
attempts in the 1990s by the Russian linguists at reconstructing the
root inventory of proto-Semito-Hamitic (proto-Afro-Asiatic), which the
present project continues. The volumes of this project contain
proto-roots not yet published therein.