Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all...

The Proto-Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the Proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex...

nearly all Semitic languages as well as in most other Afroasiatic languages, and they are generally reconstructed as glottalization in Proto-Semitic. Thus...

Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language...

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 196 languages spoken across...

of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Cushitic Proto-Berber Proto-Chadic...

languages are a branch of the broader Afroasiatic macro-family. Christopher Ehret argues for a unified Proto-Cushitic language in the Red Sea Hills as far back...

The Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens or Proto-World, is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. The concept...

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...

based on Blench (2006). Proto-Bantu language Proto-Afroasiatic language Haplogroup E-M2 Güldemann, Tom (2011). "Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal...

language). The languages have around 7.9 million speakers. The group is generally classified as belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, but this...

James (1985). "Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic". Language. 61 (4): 887. doi:10.2307/414496...

Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...

Semitic languages in particular. There are multiple possibilities: perhaps Egyptian had already undergone radical changes from Proto-Afroasiatic before...

Afrasian (his term for Afroasiatic), Kartvelian, Dravidian, a group comprising Sumerian, Elamitic, and some other extinct languages of the ancient Near East...

linguistics. Some universally accepted proto-languages are Proto-Afroasiatic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, and Proto-Dravidian. In a few fortuitous instances...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

Ethiosemitic and Sayhadic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In...

daughter language of Proto-Semitic, which is a daughter language of Proto-Afroasiatic. Hiligaynon and Cebuano are daughter languages of Proto-Visayan,...

Proto-Arabic is the name given to the hypothetical reconstructed ancestor of all the varieties of Arabic attested since the 9th century BC. There are...

3 Yutil al Hasa (WHS 784) Asia portal Afroasiatic Urheimat Prehistory of the Levant Proto-Afroasiatic language "Natufian". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...

Comparative work of the Afroasiatic languages uses a semi-conventionalized set of symbols that are somewhat different than the International Phonetic...

after the Afroasiatic Egyptian language and Semitic languages. The analysis of the family relationships between the Indo-European languages, and the reconstruction...

independent language family and does not accept Nilo-Saharan as a valid language family. An early suggestion for Ik as a member of Afroasiatic was made by...

hypothetical proto-Semitic region of origin is therefore dependent on the larger geographic distributions of the other language families within Afroasiatic, whose...

(LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 02). München: LINCOM Europa, p. 130 Maarten Kossmann, Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère, Rüdiger Köppe:Köln...

compounds Personal Attack Alarm Piezo Audio Amplifier Proto-Afroasiatic language Proto-Austroasiatic language Piecewise Aggregate Approximation [zh], dimension...

younger than Afroasiatic (c. 10,000 BC: 33  or 11,000 to 16,000 BC: 35–36  according to different sources). Classification of the Japonic languages Nostratic...

Nostratic associates Uralic, Indo-European, Altaic, Dravidian, Afroasiatic, and various other language families of Asia. The Nostratic hypothesis was first propounded...