Talk:The Languages of Africa
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The change of "Hottentot" to "Khoisan" was understandable, but anachronistic, and inaccurate insofar as "Khoisan" includes the so-called Bushman languages as well. - Mustafaa
Broke own rules[edit]
Greenberg broke his own rules. At one point, he accused his enemies of racialism. This is a non-linguistic argument. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 (talk) 13:34, 23 April 2008 (UTC) At one point in 1963, Greenberg admitted that the chance that his methods will give wrong results is rather high. He freely jumps from words to languages and does not say how he arrived at a numerical estimate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.30.223 (talk) 16:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
What about the list of languages at the end of the article[edit]
What shall we do with the list of languages at the end of the article? Is the idea to keep Greenberg's spelling of language names, even though different names are often established in the literature nearly 50 years after the publication? This creates many dead links or non-links. Maybe we could keep Greenberg's names, but let the underlying links go to the correct location. This would then look like this: Awiya. Shall we pursue this? Landroving Linguist (talk) 18:51, 4 July 2008 (UTC)