Friedrich Müller (linguist)
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This article is about the German linguist. For the German scholar of comparative religion and linguistics, see Friedrich Max Müller.
Friedrich Müller (1834-1898) was a German linguist who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages, in relation with Afro-Asiatic languages. According to the classification of the late Professor Friedrich Müller (1834-98), of the University of Vienna, followed by Dr. Robert Needham Cust (1821-1909), the main groups are: (1) The Semitic; (2) the Hamitic; (3) the Nuba-Fula; (4) the Nigerian or Negro languages; (5) the Bantu; and (6) the Hottentot-Bushman.[1].
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- Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft, 1876-1888. Facsimile reprint, 2004, ISBN 348712047X etc..
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