Editing Christopher Ehret (section)

{{short description|American historian and linguist}}

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| name               = Christopher Ehret
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| birth_date         = 27 July 1941
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| death_date         = 25 March 2025
| death_place        = Thousand Oaks, California
| nationality        = American
| occupation         = Historian
| spouse             = Patricia Ehret
| alma_mater         = [[Northwestern University]]
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| workplaces         = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| main_interests     = [[Afroasiatic languages]], [[Nilo-Saharan languages]], [[historical linguistics]]
| notable_works      = ''Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian)'' (2005)
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'''Christopher Ehret''' (27 July 1941 – 25 March 2025), was an American scholar of [[African history]] and African [[historical linguistics]] who was particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record.  He was a professor at [[UCLA]] for almost half a century and published many works, including ''Reconstructing Proto-Afrasian'' (1995) and ''Ancient Africa'' (2023). He authored around seventy articles on a range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects.  These works include monographic articles on Bantu subclassification; on internal reconstruction in Semitic; on the reconstruction of proto-Cushitic and proto-Eastern Cushitic; and, with Mohamed Nuuh Ali, on the classification of the Somali languages.  

He contributed to a number of encyclopedias on African topics and on world history, such as Volume III of [[UNESCO]] ''[[General History of Africa]]'' book series for which he wrote a chapter on the [[East Africa|East African]] interior.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Africa |first1=Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of |title=UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. III, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century |date=3 November 1992 |pages=616–643|publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-06698-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xa0wDwAAQBAJ&q=unesco+general+history+of+africa+volume+iii |language=en}}</ref>