More than 70% of the native population has Afro-Asian ancestry stemming from African, Malagasy, Indian and Chinese peoples, combined with additional British and French origins. However, the demographic is specifically proud of their African / Malagasy heritage and have formed an institute promoting their identity and cultural tolerance.

Afroasiatic is one of the four major language families spoken in Africa identified by Joseph Greenberg in his book The Languages of Africa (1963). It is one of the few whose speech area is transcontinental, with languages from Afroasiatic's Semitic branch also …

Thus the name ‘Hamitic’ was no longer valid and possibly racist (Ruhlen 1987:82). He therefore coined "Afro-Asiatic" as the name for this family. It included the six groups Ancient Egyptian, Omotic, Cushitic, Semitic, Berber, and Chadic, found on the following map: Fig. 1 Afro-Asiatic Language Family. Adapted from Ruhlen 1987.

Afro-Asiatic, formerly called Hamito-Semitic, is the largest language family of northern Africa. With a total number of speakers estimated at more than 300 million, it is spread throughout North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. Since Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac, are the languages of Islam, Judaism, and two sects of the ...

Afro-Asians are people of mixed Asian, particularly Southern or East Asian ancestry and Black.

The nineteenth century was a time of great discovery within the Afro-Asiatic family. Some of these discoveries will be overviewed by discussing the locations, origins and migrations, sub-groupings and characteristics of Afro-Asiatic, as well as ties to other language families and fields outside of linguistics. Location Africa is divided by geographical features, including the Sahara …

Afro-Asian communities are the result of a continuous centuries-old phenomenon but why are they not widely known? The obvious reason for this is their hidden presence as forest-dwellers, villagers and people on the margins.

About 250 Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken today by a total of approximately 250 million people. Numbers of speakers per language range from about 150 million, as in the case of Arabic, to only a few hundred, as in the case of some Cushitic and Chadic languages.

Afro-asiatic Languages And Nigerian Peoples by amor4ce(m): 5:10am On Feb 15, 2012 This is especially for PhysicsQED. The Nigerian Philologist, Modupe Oduyoye, has done a lot of research into the Afro-Asiatic roots of West African (including Nigerian) languages and his findings indicate that some West African peoples south of the Sahara once lived in the Levant.

Re: Afro-asiatic Languages And Nigerian Peoples by amor4ce ( m ): 2:03am On Mar 03, 2012. It seems to me that descendants of the original peoples of the Levant/Sumer/Mesopotamia are represented in Nigeria. For instance, the people of Kebbi are …