Jan 01, 2021 · Proto-Afroasiatic is a reconstructed language. Its words and roots are not directly attested in any written works, but have been reconstructed through the comparative method, which finds regular similarities between languages that cannot be explained by coincidence or word-borrowing, and extrapolates ancient forms from these similarities.

Hi there! ???? Below is a massive list of afroasiatic words - that is, words related to afroasiatic. There are 274 afroasiatic-related words in total, with the top 5 most semantically related being semitic, cushitic, omotic, chadic and egyptian language. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it.

Jul 28, 1999 · The reconstructed consonants for Proto-Afro-Asiatic are p and b, t and d, and k and g. The Egyptian ‘bw’ meaning ‘place’ and the Semitic ‘bi’ meaning ‘in or from’ are believed to be from the reconstructed root *b- meaning foot or place (ELL, p.51).

proto; proto-afro-asiatic; proto-albanian; proto-algic; proto-algonquian; proto-altaic

As Proto-Afro-Asiatic was probably non-tonal, they must have acquired tones through contact with Nilo-Sharan or Niger-Congo languages. Morphology-Semitic, Berber and Egyptian have bi- and tri- consonantal lexical roots to which vowels add grammatical information. For this reason, their languages do not write their vowels, a feature that makes linguistic comparisons and …

Compare, for instance, the normal verb stem and the imperative form of “to come”: in Proto-Chadic these are *(-)sə and *ya, respectively; in Amazigh Kabyle as and eyya; in Egyptian nn and mn; and in Semitic Amharic mεṭṭä and na. Afro-Asiatic verbs can be modified to indicate different kinds of qualities of action.

Answer: Almost certainly not. Afro-Asiatic is a very old linguistic phylum, far older than any other that linguists are aware of. If looking at the time-depth of each of its constituent subfamilies, one sees that most of them are of roughly equal age to or even older than most other independent ...

Now notice that two of these words, “*oclus” and “tres”, resemble the Proto-Germanic words “*augô” and “*þrīz”. This should come as no surprise, since it is known that the two families are related, being a part of the larger Indo-European family.