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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian ), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [4] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
Afroasiatic ( Afro-Asiatic ), also called Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic [1] or Semito-Hamitic, [2] is a large language family. They are mainly spoken in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. [3] There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken. About 495 million people speak an Afroasiatic language ...
The meaning of AFRO-ASIATIC LANGUAGES is a family of languages widely distributed over southwestern Asia and northern Africa, comprising the Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chad subfamilies.
Afro-Asiatic (or Afroasiatic; also known as “Hamito-Semitic”) is an entity of genetically related languages which is often labeled a macro-family or language phylum due to the number and typological diversity of its member languages and the chronological depth of this entity. In any case the choice of the label is arbitrary and depends on ...
A rough overview of language families spoken in Africa: Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan (possibly a family) Niger–Congo (some areas may not belong) Bantu Khoisan (not a family) Indo-European Austronesian The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000. Nigeria ...
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 ...
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2.2 Number of Languages. By some estimates, there are 375 Afroasiatic languages. At present one cannot provide a more precise statement regarding the number of Afroasiatic languages, primarily because many Chadic languages have not yet been described, and also because, for a number of languages, there is no necessary information about mutual intelligibility among related languages.
