The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...
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modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around...
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The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...
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Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a...
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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...
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communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into separate distinct languages. Afroasiatic languages are today mostly distributed...
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In addition, the languages of Africa include several unclassified languages and sign languages. The earliest Afroasiatic languages are associated with...
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language. Omotic is generally considered the most divergent branch of the Afroasiatic languages. In early work up to Greenberg (1963), the languages had...
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speak languages belonging to the Semitic branch of the latter Afroasiatic family, with the Hindustani and British residents speaking languages from the...
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population. Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the...
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oldest Afroasiatic language documented in written form, its morphological repertoire is very different from that of the rest of the Afroasiatic languages in...
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Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...
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Africa as a whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also...
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other ancient...
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Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic...
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Ethiosemitic and Sayhadic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In...
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Etymological dictionary (category CS1 Danish-language sources (da))
Snoj [13] – Swedish Etymological Dictionary by Elof Hellquist [14] – Afroasiatic Etymological Dictionary by S. A. Starostin et al. [15] – Arabic Etymological...
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Semitic root (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
of quadriliterals, and in some languages also biliterals). Such roots are also common in other Afroasiatic languages. While Berber mostly has triconsonantal...
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Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic...
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proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language, and thus its descendant Berber languages are cousins...
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the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with...
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Eritreans (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic...
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Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Hayward, Richard J. 2003. 'Omotic: the "empty quarter" of Afroasiatic linguistics'...
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Eurasia, as well as the Afroasiatic languages of North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and the Eskimo–Aleut and the Na-Dene languages of the New World. Murray...
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aspects of the language that are secure) are similar to those of the Afroasiatic languages, and dissimilar from Nilo-Saharan languages. For example, she...
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official language which is still the language of working, education and administration. The languages of Mauritania mainly consist of various Afroasiatic languages...
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Vladimir Orel (category Linguists of Afroasiatic languages)
Semitic languages, Hebrew in the first place, and more broadly in Afroasiatic languages as a whole, where lie his most controversial results. Through collaboration...
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Christopher Ehret (category Linguists of Afroasiatic languages)
review article in Afrika und Übersee by the distinguished scholar of Afroasiatic languages, Ekkehard Wolff. Wolff writes: "Ehrets opus magnum ist ein Parforce-Ritt...
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several other languages. Gambian Sign Language is used by the deaf. English is the main language for official purposes and education. Languages portal The...
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Genitive case (category Articles containing German-language text)
other ways to indicate a genitive construction. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun (rather than the modifying noun) in the construct...
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