Joseph Greenberg

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United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001)

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However, Christopher Ehret (1979), Harold Fleming (1981), and Joseph Greenberg (1981) all agree that the Omotic branch split from the rest first. Source: Internet

Joseph Greenberg took Westermann's work as a starting-point for his own classification. Source: Internet

In the second half of the 20th century, Joseph Greenberg produced a series of large-scale classifications of the world's languages. Source: Internet

It was propounded by Joseph Greenberg in 2000–2002. Source: Internet

It was replaced by those of Joseph Greenberg in 1955 and in 1963. Source: Internet

Much of the classification of African languages associated with Joseph Greenberg actually derives from the work of Westermann. Source: Internet

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