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  1. The major branches of Afro-Asiatic are Semitic, Berber, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. Berber languages are spoken by perhaps 15 million people in enclaves scattered across North Africa from Morocco to northwestern Egypt and in parts of the western Sahara.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. The Austroasiatic languages (/ ˌ ɒ s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k, ˌ ɔː-/ OSS-troh-ay-zhee-AT-ik, AWSS-) are a large language family spoken throughout mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.

  6. Afro-Asiatic languages - Internal Comparison, Proving Relationship, Problems: Linguists use a set of methods with which they compare languages, both modern and ancient, in order to establish “genetically related” language groups.

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  8. 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.