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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.
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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Linguists traditionally recognize two primary divisions of Austroasiatic: the Mon–Khmer languages of Southeast Asia, Northeast India and the Nicobar Islands, and the Munda languages of East and Central India and parts of Bangladesh and Nepal. However, no evidence for this classification has ever been published.
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, [a] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [1] [2] They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages [3] spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.
Jun 17, 2020 · There are six branches of the Afro-Asiatic family: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. Languages in all but the Egyptian branch are still spoken today. The Egyptian Afro-Asiatic languages became extinct (or fell out of everyday use) by the 17th or 18th century. However, Coptic — the modern descendent of Ancient Egyptian ...
THE AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central, and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typo-logical study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their
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. The application of such methods involves the systematic analysis of the phonologies (sound systems), vocabularies, and grammars of the languages in question. The ...
