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H. Ekkehard Wolff. Afro-Asiatic languages - Morphology, Semitic, Berber: Afro-Asiatic languages are characterized by a “root and pattern” system in which the basic meaning of a word is manifested in the consonants alone. The sequence of vowels, which is known as the pattern, adds grammatical information and may modify the basic lexical ...
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, the Central African Republic, and northern Cameroon. By far the most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, a lingua franca of much of inland ...
Katembri–Taruma languages: definitions, meanings, uses, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives, analogies in sensagent dictionaries (English)
Feb 22, 2024 · No. Proto-Afroasiatic English gloss Notes 1. *w: deverbative complement and result suffix: 2. *y: attributive noun and attributive deverbative suffix: 2a. *y
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Timetremǹkhēmi) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, [2] representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, [2] [4] and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt. [1] Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the ...
Afroasiatic language: 1 n a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa Synonyms: Afrasian , Afrasian language , Afro-Asiatic , Afroasiatic , Hamito-Semitic Types: show 20 types... hide 20 types... Chad , Chadic , Chadic language a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and ...
Berber is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [13] Since modern Berber languages are relatively homogeneous, the date of the Proto-Berber language from which the modern group is derived was probably comparatively recent, comparable to the age of the Germanic or Romance subfamilies.
