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   Apr 9, 2024 · Proto-Afroasiatic ( PAA ), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around 12,000 to 18,000 years ago (12 to 18 ...

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   Did the Proto-Ethiopians speak a single stock?

   • The analysis of linguistic distributions suggests that the proto-Ethiopians of the third millennium B.C. spoke languages derived from a single stock, that is known as Hamito-Semitic or Afro-Asiatic.

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   Does Omotic have a third person agreement?

   • As first noticed by Joseph Greenberg, Afroasiatic languages in all branches but Omotic attest a series of third person agreement markers in the form n- (masculine), t- (feminine), and n- (plural), which probably derive from Proto-Afroasiatic determiners; Omotic attests t- (feminine) alone of this set.

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   What is Proto-Afroasiatic case system?

   • First proposed by Hans-Jürgen Sasse on the basis of his reconstruction of the Proto-Cushitic case system in 1984, Proto-Afroasiatic is usually reconstructed with a case system similar to Proto-Semitic. This gives a nominative ending *-u, accusative or absolutive *-a, and genitive *-i.

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   What tenses did Proto-Afroasiatic have?

   • There is little agreement about which tenses, aspects, or moods ( TAMs) Proto-Afroasiatic might have had: it may have had two basic forms (indicative vs. subjunctive, state vs. action, transitive vs. intransitive, or perfective vs. imperfective) or three (unmarked vs. perfective vs. imperfective).

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   3 days ago · Early Afro-Asiatic populations speaking proto-Semitic, proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic languages would have diverged by the fourth or fifth millennium BC. Shortly afterwards, the proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic groups would have settled in the Ethiopian highlands, with the proto-Semitic speakers crossing the Sinai Peninsula into Asia Minor.

   • Signed forms: Signed Amharic
   • Official language in: Ethiopia

   • Native to: Ethiopia