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  1. There are around 300 Afroasiatic

    Afroasiatic languages

    Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian and traditionally as Hamito-Semitic (Chamito-Semitic), is a large language family of several hundred related languages and dialects. It comprises about 300 or so living languages and dialects, according to the 2009 Ethnologue estim…

    languages that are still spoken. About 495 million people speak an Afroasiatic language as their first language. There are six branches of the language family: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic.
    Geographic distribution: Malta, Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel, West Asia
    Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families
    Proto-language: Proto-Afroasiatic
    Subdivisions: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian †, Omotic, Semitic
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    How many languages are in the Afroasiatic family?
    Afroasiatic languages have over 495 million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family (after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan and Niger–Congo). The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic.
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    Is there a dictionary of Afroasiatic etymology?
    There are two etymological dictionaries of Afroasiatic, one by Christopher Ehret, and one by Vladimir Orel and Olga Stolbova. The two dictionaries disagree on almost everything. The following table contains the thirty roots or so (out of thousands) that represent a fragile consensus of present research:
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    What are the different types of African languages?
    These include Shilha (a Berber language, spoken in Morocco), Hausa (from the Chadic branch — spoken in Nigeria and Niger) and Somali (a Cushitic language native to several East African countries). There’s also Mao (an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia), and Hebrew (which also belongs to the Semitic branch).
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    Is Egyptian the most widely spoken Afro-Asiatic language?
    Since Egyptian is not really considered a living branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, we’ll focus on the other 5 branches. The most widely spoken Afro-Asiatic language today is Arabic (a Semitic language), but there are many other significant languages in the family.
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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 language, has over 300 million native speakers; additionally, Classical Arabic, an archaic form of the language, is the liturgical language of Islam, the

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    The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian or Erythraean, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in

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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 perceived a relationship between

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    The Afroasiatic urheimat, the hypothetical place where Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex 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

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    Scholars generally treat the Afroasiatic language family as including at least the following five branches:
    Berber
    Chadic

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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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    Widespread (though not universal) features of the Afroasiatic languages include:
    • A set of emphatic consonants, variously realized as glottalized,

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  4. All In The Language Family: The Afro-Asiatic Languages

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    There are six branches of the Afro-Asiatic family: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. Languages in all but the Egyptian branch are still spoken today. The Egyptian Afro-Asiatic languages became extinct (or fell out of everyday use) by the 17th or 18th century. However, Coptic — the modern descen…
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    What are the Afro-Asiatic languages?
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  5. https://www.paleohebrewdictionary.org/afroasiatic-languages

    Oxyrhynchite (Mesokemic) Upper Egypt Sahidic (Thebaic) Akhmimic Lycopolitan (Subakhmimic and Assiutic) Sahidic (Thebaic) Akhmimic Lycopolitan (Subakhmimic and Assiutic) Lower Egypt Bohairic (Memphitic) Fayyumic (Bashmuric) Oxyrhynchite (Mesokemic) Bohairic (Memphitic) Fayyumic (Bashmuric) ...

  6. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages

    There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken. About 495 million people speak an Afroasiatic language as their first language. There are six branches of the language family: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. The most spoken language is Arabic, a Semitic language. It has around 313 million native speakers.

  7. https://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/afro-asiatic2.html

    Jul 28, 1999 · To the south lay the other language families of Africa: Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan (Atlas,p74). These three groups are classified as being in Africa while Afro-Asiatic is listed under the term Eurasia (Atlas, p.74). Among the countries included in this language family are: Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, and Ethiopia.

  8. https://www.nativebreed.org/afroasiatic

    Sep 15, 2021 · 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. except for Semitic, which is also spoken in the Middle-East and Malta, all branches of the Afroаsiatic …

  9. Lenguas afroasiáticas - Free Info - Wikidat

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    Afroasiatic languages Afroasiatic ( Afro-Asiatic ), also known as Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, 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.

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

    The main subfamilies of Afroasiatic are Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, Egyptian and Semitic. The Afroasiatic Urheimat is uncertain. The family's most extensive branch, the Semitic languages (including Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew among …

  11. How Many People Speak Afro Asiatic Language Family?

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    There are four main language families in Africa: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan. Where Is The Afro-Asiatic Language Family Spoken? Today, Afroasiatic languages are primarily spoken in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel region.

  12. https://omniglot.com/writing/langfam.htm

    The Afroasiatic language family includes around 375 languages which are spoken by over 350 million people in the Middle East, North Africa and parts of the Sahel. These languages are also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic / Chamito-Semitic. Berber languages

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