Complex sentence: Cushitic was traditionally seen as including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been abandoned by many, largely due to the work of Harold C. Fleming (1974) and M. Lionel Bender (1975).
Split into simpler sentences: Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic. However, this view has been abandoned by many, largely due to the work of Harold C. Fleming (1974) and M. Lionel Bender (1975).