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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages

    Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian, sometimes also as Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean, is a large language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahara/Sahel region. With the exception of

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    In the early 19th century, linguists grouped the Berber, Cushitic and Egyptian languages within a "Hamitic" phylum, in acknowledgement of these languages' genetic relation with each other and with those in the

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    Scholars generally treat the Afroasiatic language family as including the following five branches, whereas Omotic is disputed:
    Berber

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    In descending order of the number of speakers, widely-spoken Afroasiatic languages include:
    Arabic (Semitic), the today most widely spoken Afroasiatic

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    The earliest written evidence of an Afroasiatic language is an Ancient Egyptian inscription dated to c. 3400 BC (5,400 years ago). Symbols on Gerzean (Naqada II) pottery

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    The Afroasiatic urheimat, the hypothetical place where Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages, is unknown.

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    Widespread (though not universal) features of the Afroasiatic languages include:
    • A set of emphatic consonants, variously realized as glottalized, pharyngealized, or implosive.
    VSO typology with SVO tendencies.

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    In the 9th century the Hebrew grammarian Judah ibn Quraysh of Tiaret in Algeria became the first to link two branches of Afroasiatic together; he

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    Oct 19, 2021 · Detailed map of Afroasiatic languages in Africa and the Middle East. Summary . Description: English: Detailed map of Afroasiatic languages in Africa and the Middle East. This file was derived from: Africa map blank.svg. Sources (Wikipedia): Files: Tachelhit.png, ...

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    What is Afroasiatic language?
    Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean is a large language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages
    What are the languages of Africa?
    Africa: Languages. The Afro-Asiatic family includes languages from both Africa and the Middle East: Semitic (including Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya), Egyptian (extinct), Amazigh (Berber), Cushitic, Chadic (e.g., Hausa), and Omotic. It is found over much of northern Africa and eastward to the Horn of Africa.
    www.britannica.com/topic/Afro-Asiatic-languages
    What are the 6 branches of Afroasiatic languages?
    The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic; however, the inclusion of Omotic remains controversial, and several linguists see it as independent language family that stood in long-term contact with Afroasiatic languages. By far the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language or dialect continuum is Arabic.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages
    What is the earliest written evidence of Afroasiatic language?
    The earliest written evidence of an Afroasiatic language is an Ancient Egyptian inscription dated to c. 3400 BC (5,400 years ago). Symbols on Gerzean (Naqada II) pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting an earlier possible dating.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages
  4. https://www.geocurrents.info/.../attachment/afro-asiatic-language-family-map

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  5. All Major Afroasiatic Languages (with a map)

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    Jan 17, 2022 · All Major Afroasiatic Languages (with a map) Can you name all the Afroasiatic languages/dialects on the map below? Only language with more than 500,000 people are included. All L1 speaker data taken from each language's Wikipedia page, some figures may be disputable. Not including the controversial Omotic language family. ...

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    May 29, 2021 · The Spread of Afroasiatic Languages, 11,000 BC to 600 AD This quick map I made shows the spread of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic linguistic phylum between 11,000 BC and 600 AD. The hypothesized proto-Afroasiatic "homeland" (region of origin) at the beginning of the time frame is painted in brown along the western Red Sea coastline.

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    Statistics on the JetPunk quiz All Major Afroasiatic Languages (with a map). Statistics on the JetPunk quiz All Major Afroasiatic Languages (with a map). Quizzes . More . Create. en-1. Create Account. Login. About JetPunk. About Us ... Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

  8. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/pq1sep/...

    Detailed map of Afroasiatic languages in Africa and the Middle East by (2020) So hard to see Maltese on the map. Would someone be a darling and possibly explain the reasoning that the term antisemitic doesnt apply to everyone speaking a Semitic language?

  9. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Afro-Asiatic-languages

    Afro-Asiatic languages, also called Afrasian languages, formerly Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean languages, languages of common origin found in the northern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some islands and adjacent areas in Western Asia. About 250 Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken today by a total of approximately 250 million people.

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  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages

    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen …

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages

    The Austroasiatic languages / ˌ ɔː s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k /, also known as Mon–Khmer / m oʊ n k ə ˈ m ɛər /, are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia.These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China. There are around 117 million speakers of Austroasiatic languages. Of these languages, only ...

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