Afrasian

Speech parts

1. Afrasian - Noun

2. Afrasian - Adjective

Meaning

a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Afroasiatic Afro-Asiatic Hamito-Semitic Afrasian language Afroasiatic language chad semitic Chadic Chadic language

Hypernyms

tongue natural language

Hyponyms

egyptian berber chad semitic Chadic Hamitic

Anagrams

Sarafian

Examples

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. Source: Internet

"Historical-comparative vocabulary of Afrasian", St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies 2–6. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

afrancesado Afrasia Afrasiab Afrasian language Afrasiyab Afrasyab