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4 days ago · 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. [2] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
- Proto-Afroasiatic
Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic,...
- Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic...
- Proto-Afroasiatic
2 days ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
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5 days ago · 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 ...
4 days ago · Publication Date: 1976-11-01. The Handbook of Linguistics by Mark Aronoff (Editor); Janie Rees-Miller (Editor) Call Number: Ebook. ISBN: 9781405102520. Publication Date: 2003-02-24. Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics,The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject and its subdisciplines.
4 days ago · At the same time, these criteria are not absolute. A vital language may have a relatively small number of speakers, and a language with a large number of speakers may be at risk of being diluted to the point of non-recognition. In On the Death and Life of Languages, Claude Hagege recognizes this, stating that "languages accompany human groups.
4 days ago · UNESCO language endangerment classification. The UNESCO list has 6 categories of endangerment: Extinct: there are no speakers left (Note: The Atlas presumes extinction if there have been no known speakers since the 1950s.) Critically endangered: The youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and ...
4 days ago · Black Athena [Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization] Martin Bernal Rutgers University Press, 1991 [paperback] [English] ed. 3.)
