WebAfroasiatic languages have over 500 million native speakers, which is the fourth-largest number of native speakers of any language family (after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo). The phylum has six branches: Berber, …

WebAfroasiatic languages are spoken throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia and parts of the Sahel.There are approximately 375 Afroasiatic languages spoken by over 400 million people. The main subfamilies of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian and Semitic.The Afroasiatic Urheimat is uncertain. The family's most …

WebThe 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 …

WebJaponic or Japanese–Ryukyuan, sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.The family is universally accepted by linguists, and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language. The reconstruction implies a split …

WebThe Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi–Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia.Its speakers traditionally were indigenous hunter-gatherers and reindeer-herders. Chukotko-Kamchatkan is endangered.The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western Itelmen, with only 4 or 5 elderly speakers left.The …

WebThe Austroasiatic languages / ˌ ɒ s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k /, / ˌ ɔː-/, 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, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are the majority …

WebNa-Dene (/ ˌ n ɑː d ɪ ˈ n eɪ /; also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida was formerly included, but is now considered doubtful. By far the most widely spoken Na-Dene language today is Navajo.. In February 2008, a …

WebThe main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, Beja. Tigrinya, Arabic, English language and historically Italian language serve as working languages.. Tigrinya is the most widely spoken language in the country with 2,540,000 total native speakers of a population of 5,254,000 in 2006. The remaining residents primarily …

WebNounlessness. Salishan languages (along with the Wakashan and the extinct Chimakuan languages) exhibit predicate/argument flexibility. All content words are able to occur as the head of the predicate (including words with typically 'noun-like' meanings that refer to entities) or in an argument (including those with 'verb-like' meanings that refer to events).

WebThe Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to Benin in the west; from Libya to the …