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  1. 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 typological diversity in the areas of ...

  2. H. Ekkehard Wolff. Afro-Asiatic languages - Verbal System, Semitic, Berber: There are competing schools of thought surrounding the conjugational patterns of the protolanguage’s verbal system. For decades heated debates have focused on the functions and interrelations of the most basic inflectional categories, often discussed in terms of ...

  3. The Institute of Semitic Studies (ISS) is a nonprofit independent research institution based in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, dedicated to the academic study of Semitic (and other major Afroasiatic) languages and cultures. Its work seeks especially to highlight the contribution of Afroasiatic peoples to world civilization, in general ...

  4. Category:Afroasiatic languages. Category. : Afroasiatic languages. Language portal. For a list of words relating to Afro-Asiatic languages, see the Afro-Asiatic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Afro-Asiatic languages.

  5. The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, [1] are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite. These closely related languages originate in the Levant and Mesopotamia, and were spoken by the ancient Semitic-speaking peoples of an area encompassing what is today ...

  6. I agree with user Austronesier that we must base the article (including Afroasiatic languages) on actual linguistic data and sources first, eventually citing some information from population genetic papers secondary. The current version is a mess in my eyes, which I tried to balance, but some editors seem to stick to their genetic based version ...

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