Afrasian
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1. Afrasian - Noun
2. Afrasian - Adjective
Meaning
a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Afroasiatic
Afro-Asiatic
Hamito-Semitic
Afrasian language
Afroasiatic language
chad
semitic
Chadic
Chadic language
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In lieu of "Hamito-Semitic", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term "Afrasian", meaning "half African, half Asiatic", in reference to the geographic distribution of the family's constituent languages.
"Historical-comparative vocabulary of Afrasian", St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies 2–6.