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The major branches of Afro-Asiatic are Semitic, Berber, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. Berber languages are spoken by perhaps 15 million people in enclaves scattered across North Africa from Morocco to northwestern Egypt and in parts of the western Sahara. Cushitic consists of some 30 languages spoken by more than 30 million people in ...
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Afroasiatic languages. For a list of words relating to Afro-Asiatic languages, see the Afro-Asiatic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Afro-Asiatic languages.
The Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into separate distinct languages. Afroasiatic languages are today mostly distributed in parts of Africa, and ...
Eurasiatic [1] is a proposed language macrofamily that would include many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and southern Eurasia . The idea of a Eurasiatic superfamily dates back more than 100 years. Joseph Greenberg 's proposal, dating to the 1990s, is the most widely discussed version.
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya ...