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

lan·guage (lăng′gwĭj) n. 1. a. Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. b. Such a system including its rules for combining its components, such as words. c. Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect. 2 ...

Cheikh Anta Diop, né le 29 décembre 1923 à Thieytou et mort le 7 février 1986 à Dakar, est un scientifique de formation, historien, anthropologue, homme politique sénégalais.Il s'est attaché, sa vie durant, à montrer l'apport de l'Afrique et en particulier de l'Afrique noire à la culture et à la civilisation mondiales. Cheikh Anta Diop a été un précurseur dans sa volonté d ...

The Tupian or Tupi language family includes about 70 languages spoken in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. The Tupian language with the most speakers if Guaraní, which is mainly spoken in Paraguay and has about 6.5 million speakers. Other members of this language family have far fewer speakers. Tupian languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and …

The Natufian culture (/ n ə ˈ t uː f i ə n /) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Levant, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture.The Natufian communities may be the ancestors of the builders of the first Neolithic settlements of the ...

The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language).The languages have around 6.2 million speakers. The group is generally …

Chronological by date of birth 622 to 1500. Sebeos (fl. 651), Armenian historian, documented in his History the rise of Muhammad and the early Muslim conquests.; Joannis Damasceni (c. 676–749), official of the Caliph at Damascus, later a Syrian monk, Doctor of the Church, his Peri Aireseon [Concerning Heresies] [t], its chapter 100 being "Heresy of the Ishmailites" (attribution …

The Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen and Oman, and Socotra Island.Together with the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the …

Từ nguyên. Trong tiếng Việt, "ngôn ngữ" là phiên âm Hán-Việt của cặp Hán tự 言語 (bính âm Quan thoại chuẩn: yányǔ).Trong giai đoạn tiếng Hán trung cổ, hai chữ này được phát âm là /ŋɨɐn ŋɨʌ X /, [chú thích 1] và trong giai đoạn tiếng Hán thượng cổ, 言 và 語 được phục nguyên lần lượt là *ŋan và *ŋaʔ theo ...