Editing Cushitic languages (section)

===Omotic===
Cushitic was formerly seen as also including most or all of the [[Omotic languages]]. An early view by [[Enrico Cerulli]] proposed a "Sidama" subgroup comprising most of the Omotic languages and the Sidamic group of Highland East Cushitic. Mario Martino Moreno in 1940 divided Cerulli's Sidama, uniting the Sidamic proper and the Lowland Cushitic languages as East Cushitic, the remainder as West Cushitic or ''ta/ne'' Cushitic. The [[Aroid languages]] were not considered Cushitic by either scholar (thought by Cerulli to be instead [[Nilotic languages|Nilotic]]); they were added to West Cushitic by [[Joseph Greenberg]] in 1963. Further work in the 1960s soon led to the putative West Cushitic being seen as typologically divergent and renamed as "Omotic".<ref>{{cite journal|first=Marcello|last=Lamberti|year=1991|title=Cushitic and its Classifications|journal=Anthropos|pages=552–561}}</ref>

Today the inclusion of Omotic as a part of Cushitic has been abandoned. Omotic is most often seen as an independent branch of Afroasiatic, primarily due to the work of [[Harold C. Fleming]] (1974) and [[Lionel Bender (linguist)|Lionel Bender]] (1975); some linguists like [[Paul Newman (linguist)|Paul Newman]] (1980) challenge Omotic's classification within the Afroasiatic family itself.