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5 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.
6 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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The unmarked word order is SVO. [6] OMOTIC, a family of languages spoken by approximately one million speakers along both shores of the Omo River and north of Lake Turkana in southwest Ethiopia, formerly thought to represent the western branch of Cushitic. It is still a matter of debate whether Omotic really belongs to the Afroasiatic language ...
2 days ago · Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger-Congo. Another hundred belong to smaller families such as Ubangian , Nilotic , Saharan , and the various families previously grouped under the umbrella term Khoisan .
3 days ago · Hebrew is an intricate and elegant language, but not necessarily more or less so than Arabic, both of which can trace their roots to Proto-Afroasiatic, a language thought to have been spoken around the time of the dawn of post-hunter-gatherer society. History is long, and although it may feel to many as though we’re living in the biblical end ...
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