Hausa belongs to the West Chadic languages subgroup of the Chadic languages group, which in turn is part of the Afroasiatic language family. Other Afroasiatic languages are Semitic languages including Arabic, Aramaic languages, Hebrew, extinct Phoenician and extinct Akkadian; Berber languages; Ethiopian languages including Amharic, Gurage, Tigre and Tigrinya; Cushtic languages including Somali ...
- Hausa people
- Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Togo and Sudan.
- 40 million (2015–2016), 20 million as a second language (no date);
- Niger, Nigeria
In Morocco, it rivals Shilha as the most-spoken. All five languages may be referred to as "Tamazight", but Central Atlas speakers are the only ones who use the term exclusively. As is typical of Afroasiatic languages, Tamazight has a series of "emphatic consonants" (realized as pharyngealized), uvulars, pharyngeals and lacks the phoneme /p ...
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Afroasiatic languages Afroasiatic (alternatively Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is a large language family, including about 375 living languages. Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel. More than 300 million people speak an Afroasiatic language.
- One of the world's major language families
- Proto-Afroasiatic
- Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel, and Middle East
- Semitic, Berber, Egyptian (extinct), Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic (inclusion debated)
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Swahili, also known by its native name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the native language of the Swahili people.It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of East and Southern Africa, including Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, some parts of Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Definitions of afroasiatic language, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of afroasiatic language, analogical dictionary of afroasiatic language (English)
Like all Semitic languages, the Hebrew language exhibits a pattern of stems consisting typically of "triliteral", or 3-consonant consonantal roots, from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed in various ways: e.g. by inserting vowels, doubling consonants, lengthening vowels and/or adding prefixes, suffixes or infixes. 4-consonant roots ...
Sergi outlined the constituent Hamitic physical types, which would form the basis for the work of later writers such as Carleton Coon and C. G. Seligman. In his book The Mediterranean Race (1901), he wrote that there was a distinct Hamitic ancestral stock, which could be divided into two subgroups: the Western Hamites (or Northern Hamites, comprising the Berbers of the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...