An interesting paper in the context of the Afrasian / Palaeoafrican hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dienekes' Anthropology Blog] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference

Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian) Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference