M. Lionel Bender (1934-2008) was Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale/USA. He made many important contributions in the areas of Cushitic and Amharic, the Ethiopian language area in general, and especially classification and reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan and Omotic.

• Afrasian and Cushitic family structure – Shared lexical retentions and innovations – Cushitic phoneme inventories – Cushitic phonological correspondences – Phonological development of Cushitic – Reconstructed vocabularies

M. Lionel Bender (1934-2008) was Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale/USA. He made many important contributions in the areas of Cushitic and Amharic, the Ethiopian language area in general, and especially classification and reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan and Omotic.

• Afrasian and Cushitic family structure – Shared lexical retentions and innovations – Cushitic phoneme inventories – Cushitic phonological correspondences – Phonological development of Cushitic – Reconstructed vocabularies

M. Lionel Bender (1934-2008) was Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale/USA. He made many important contributions in the areas of Cushitic and Amharic, the Ethiopian language area in general, and especially classification and reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan and Omotic.

• Afrasian and Cushitic family structure – Shared lexical retentions and innovations – Cushitic phoneme inventories – Cushitic phonological correspondences – Phonological development of Cushitic – Reconstructed vocabularies