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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.
3 days ago · The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, 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 .
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May 1, 2024 · 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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Apr 15, 2024 · Some Afroasiatic languages, such as Arabic, Hausa, Amharic, Somali, and Oromo, are spoken by millions of people, while others are endangered with extinction. As of the early 21st century, the phylum is composed of six families: Egyptian (extinct), Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber, and Chadic.
Apr 19, 2024 · Aramaic. Language belonging to the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). At some point during the second millenium b.c., the Aramaeans abandoned their desert existence and settled in Syria, bringing their language, Aramaic, with them.
Apr 27, 2024 · Africa's linguistic landscape is as vast and vibrant as its geographical expanse. With languages belonging primarily to two major families, Afroasiatic and Niger–Congo, alongside several smaller families like Nilo-Saharan and Austronesian, the continent boasts a linguistic heritage rich in diversity and complexity.
Apr 28, 2024 · The West Caucasian language refers to a group of languages that belong to the Northwest Caucasian family, also known as the West Caucasian or Abkhaz-Adyghe family. This language family includes five languages: West Circassian, Kabardian, Ubykh, Abkhaz, and Abaza. These languages are known for their high degree of polysynthesis.
