Afroasiatic

Speech parts

1. Afroasiatic - Noun

2. Afroasiatic - Adjective

3. Afroasiatic - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

tongue natural language

Hyponyms

egyptian berber chad semitic Chadic Hamitic

Examples

According to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages. Source: Internet

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel. Source: Internet

Although Egyptian is the oldest Afroasiatic language documented in written form, its morphological repertoire is greatly different from that of the rest of the Afroasiatic in general and Semitic in particular. Source: Internet

As in other Afroasiatic languages, gender of pronouns differ only in the second and third person singular. Source: Internet

Afroasiatic Urheimat main Map showing one of the proposed Afroasiatic Urheimat. Source: Internet

Greenberg (1963) and others considered it a subgroup of Cushitic, whereas others have raised doubts about it being part of Afroasiatic at all (e.g. Theil 2006). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Afro-Ukrainian Afro-wig afroalpine Afroasiatic language Afroasiaticist afrobatrachian