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Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also called Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family. They are mainly spoken in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken.
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.
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Afro-Asiatic languages, formerly Hamito-Semitic languages, Family of about 250 languages spoken in North Africa, parts of sub-Saharan African, and the Middle East. It includes such languages as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa. The total number of speakers is estimated to be more than 250 million. The major branches of Afro-Asiatic are Semitic, B...
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Tagalog terms that originate from Afroasiatic languages. This category should, ideally, contain only other categories. Entries can be categorized here, too, when the proper subcategory is unclear.
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 meaning of the root ...
The Afroasiatic Index Project is a scholarly initiative that aims at creating an etymological database of Afroasiatic languages. THE AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES. Afroasiatic languages are a group of related languages spoken by various communities from a large area in West African centered around Lake Chad (Chadic), all the way across North Africa ...
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Most scholars of Afro-Asiatic agree that the verbal systems of all Afro-Asiatic languages can ultimately be traced back to the common protolanguage (usually allowing for a unique development in Egyptian).