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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. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia , North Africa , [a] the Horn of Africa , [b] [c] Malta , [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...
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The Afroasiatic languages, also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
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, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2] .
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Afro-Asiatic languages . Distribution of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Afro-Asiatic languages, formerly Hamito-Semitic languages, Family of about 250 languages spoken in North Africa, parts of sub-Saharan African, and the Middle East.
Afroasiatic is one of the four major language families spoken in Africa identified by Joseph Greenberg in his book The Languages of Africa (1963). It is one of the few whose speech area is transcontinental, with languages from Afroasiatic's Semitic branch also spoken in the Middle East and Europe.
