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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Afroasiatic_languagesAfroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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   2 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. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Semitic_languagesSemitic languages - Wikipedia

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   3 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.

   • Linguistic classification: Afro-AsiaticSemitic

   • Proto-language: Proto-Semitic

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   What are the major Afroasiatic languages?

   • Other major Afroasiatic languages include the Chadic Hausa language with over 34 million native speakers, the Semitic Amharic language with 25 million, and the Cushitic Somali language with 15 million.

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   When was Afroasiatic written?

   • Comparative study of Afroasiatic is hindered by the massive disparities in textual attestation between its branches: while the Semitic and Egyptian branches are attested in writing as early as the fourth millennium BC, Berber, Cushitic, and Omotic languages were often not recorded until the 19th or 20th centuries.

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   Are Afroasiatic languages related to Semitic languages?

   • The Afroasiatic languages spoken in Africa are not more closely related to each other than they are to Semitic, as one would expect if only Semitic had remained in an West Asian homeland while all other branches had spread from there.

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   Where did Afro-Asiatic language originate?

   • This ancestral language probably originated in the eastern Sahara, before the desiccation of that region... the homeland of Afro-Asiatic may have been in southwest Ethiopia.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hausa_languageHausa language - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family [6] and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Ethnologue estimated that it was spoken as a first language by some 54 million people and as a second language by another 34 million, bringing the total number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 88 million. [1 ...

   • Region: West Africa

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Languages_of_NigeriaLanguages of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Afroasiatic languages A map showing Afroasiatic speaking peoples in Nigeria. The Afroasiatic languages of Nigeria are divided into Chadic, Semitic and Berber. Among these categories, Chadic languages predominate, with more than 700 languages.

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   • Vernacular: Nigerian Pidgin

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nilo-Saharan_languagesNilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia

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   3 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 ...

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   • Native speakers: ca. 70 million for all branches listed below.

   • Linguistic classification: Proposed language family

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kartvelian_languagesKartvelian languages - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · 42-C. Glottolog. kart1248. The Kartvelian languages ( / kɑːrtˈvɛliən, - ˈviːl -/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -⁠VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages [1]) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken ...

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AmharicAmharic - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Amharic (/ æ m ˈ h ær ɪ k / am-HARR-ik or / ɑː m ˈ h ɑːr ɪ k / ahm-HAR-ik; native name: አማርኛ, romanized: Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] ⓘ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.