Talk:Southern Eastern Sudanic languages

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If Ehret is the source for this label "Kir-Abbaian", then Ehret's publication(s) should be cited, not merely Bender's.Pete unseth (talk) 16:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Nilo-Saharan classification
The names Astaboran and Kir-Abbaian - and the classification they are a part of - belong to Christopher Ehret. His subclassification of Nilo-Saharan is not shared by specialists of the field. His book about Nilo-Saharan, his reconstructions, and his wider conclusions, are not shared by any linguist conversant with Sudanic languages.

Nilo-Saharan itself is a highly hypothetical linguistic phylum, a mere conjecture. Only Central Sudanic may, later, prove to be a valid linguistic cluster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.153.59.244 (talk) 20:21, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. Wikipedia seems to treat Eastern Sudanic as demonstrated when it is not. Putative doesn't do the classification justice. Tenuous is closer to the mark. -- Lestadii27 (talk) 01:39, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Starostin (2015) is not listed in References. please fix! Nina Hollfelder (talk) 13:18, 5 December 2016 (UTC)