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Proto-Afroasiatic; Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, Proto-Afrasian: Reconstruction of: Afroasiatic languages: Region: See Afroasiatic homeland: Era: ca. 16,000–10,000 BC: Lower-order reconstructions: Proto-Berber; Proto-Chadic; Proto-Cushitic; Proto-Omotic; Proto-Semitic; Archaic Egyptian
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.
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The term Afroasiatic Urheimat (Urheimat meaning "original homeland" in German) refers to the hypothetical place where Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.
Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around 12,000 to 18,000 years ago, that is ...
There are like three or four main theories for the Proto-Afroasiatic Urheimat. This is the theory favored mostly by Egyptologists and Semiticists, and from what I can tell, Berberologists, and actually is one of the oldest theories from back when Afroasiatic was called Hamitic.
Afro-Asiatic (or Afroasiatic; also known as “Hamito-Semitic”) is an entity of genetically related languages which is often labeled a macro-family or language phylum due to the number and typological diversity of its member languages and the chronological depth of this entity.
Proto-Afroasiatic, sometimes also referred to as Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around 12,000 to 18,000 years ago (12 to 18 kya), that is, between 16,000 and 10,000 BC. The reconstruction of Proto-Afroasiatic is ...