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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

the 1990s and 2000s, researchers attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Afroasiatic language, suggesting it likely arose between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago...