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  1. 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 (12 to 18 kya ), that is, between 16,000 and 10,000 BC ...

  2. 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, between 16,000 and 10,000 BC. Although no consensus ...

  3. These are hypothetical proto-languages that cannot be substantiated using the scientific methods of comparative linguistics.

  4. Verbal plurality is coded in Afroasiatic languages by a variety of means, including the infix a, a retention from Proto-Afroasiatic; gemination and reduplication; and number of other markers.

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