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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.
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Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic,...
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Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also called Afrasian or...
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
A rough overview of language families spoken in Africa: Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan (possibly a family) Niger–Congo (some areas may not belong) Bantu Khoisan (not a family) Indo-European Austronesian The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000. Nigeria ...
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.
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.
Feb 14, 2020 · In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in...
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