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The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and went on to form the proto-communities of the different branches of the Indo-European language family. The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto ...
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya ...
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 ...
A Maltese speaker, recorded in Malta. Maltese (Maltese: Malti, also L-Ilsien Malti) is a Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata spoken by the Maltese people. It is the national language of Malta [3] and the only official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European Union.
The Semitic languages are a branch of Afroasiatic languages spoken in North Africa, Arabia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which originated in the Middle East. Semitic languages are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and ...
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to ...
The Afroasiatic languages. 1. Introduction Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay 2. Berber Maarten Kossmann 3. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Antonio Loprieno and Matthias Mueller 4. Semitic Gene B. Gragg and Robert D. Hoberman 5. Chadic Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay 6. Cushitic Maarten Mous 7. Omotic Azeb Amha 8.
