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This is substantially correct, and has been known for a long time (see, for example, Igor Diakonoff's Afrasian Languages, Moscow: Nauka 1988, or at a more basic level one of my first posts), except that 90\% is a substantial exaggeration - many of the comparisons he puts forward are at best questionable, as will be seen below.
Jabal al-Lughat 2009
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AP - A career diplomat from Bulgaria won a tense and drawn-out vie to advance the U.N. authority for society and activity on Tuesday, fighting out an Afrasian candidate whose one-time threat to burn Asiatic books had galvanized opposition.
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An interesting paper in the context of the Afrasian / Palaeoafrican hypothesis.
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