The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of... 106 KB (10,899 words) - 18:09, 17 April 2024 |
modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around... 82 KB (9,901 words) - 20:48, 21 March 2024 |
In addition, the languages of Africa include several unclassified languages and sign languages. The earliest Afroasiatic languages are associated with... 78 KB (5,578 words) - 09:57, 28 March 2024 |
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 150 languages spoken across... 13 KB (954 words) - 12:33, 17 March 2024 |
the Cushitic, Afroasiatic language family respectively. The Arab ethnic minority speak languages belonging to the separate Afroasiatic family, with the... 6 KB (521 words) - 17:37, 18 April 2024 |
language. Omotic is generally considered the most divergent branch of the Afroasiatic languages. In early work up to Greenberg (1963), the languages had... 27 KB (2,094 words) - 04:56, 18 April 2024 |
Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes... 31 KB (3,468 words) - 17:38, 2 April 2024 |
Ethiosemitic and Sayhadic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In... 10 KB (752 words) - 10:56, 14 March 2024 |
Semitic root (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text) of quadriliterals, and in some languages also biliterals). Such roots are also common in other Afroasiatic languages. While Berber mostly has triconsonantal... 19 KB (1,492 words) - 17:40, 1 April 2024 |
Eritreans (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no)) Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic... 27 KB (2,194 words) - 02:17, 28 April 2024 |
Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic... 12 KB (970 words) - 20:52, 20 April 2024 |
Etymological dictionary (category CS1 Danish-language sources (da)) Snoj [13] – Swedish Etymological Dictionary by Elof Hellquist [14] – Afroasiatic Etymological Dictionary by S. A. Starostin et al. [15] – Arabic Etymological... 28 KB (2,799 words) - 16:47, 13 March 2024 |
administration. The languages of Mauritania mainly consist of various Afroasiatic languages, including: Zenaga-Berber, Tamasheq-Berber, Hassaaniya Arabic and... 5 KB (480 words) - 07:40, 9 April 2024 |
Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Hayward, Richard J. 2003. 'Omotic: the "empty quarter" of Afroasiatic linguistics'... 3 KB (238 words) - 16:36, 11 December 2021 |
(Afar: Qafaraf; also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people... 13 KB (952 words) - 06:53, 16 March 2024 |
could not estimate when or where the ancestor of all Semitic languages diverged from Afroasiatic but it suggested that the divergence of the East, Central... 6 KB (549 words) - 23:44, 13 April 2024 |
the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with... 54 KB (4,811 words) - 16:51, 29 April 2024 |
several other languages. Gambian Sign Language is used by the deaf. English is the main language for official purposes and education. Languages portal The... 2 KB (97 words) - 15:10, 4 July 2023 |
aspects of the language that are secure) are similar to those of the Afroasiatic languages, and dissimilar from Nilo-Saharan languages. For example, she... 28 KB (3,452 words) - 01:36, 18 March 2024 |
Genitive case (category Articles containing German-language text) other ways to indicate a genitive construction. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun (rather than the modifying noun) in the construct... 35 KB (4,364 words) - 16:31, 29 April 2024 |
Afrasianist phonetic notation (redirect from Afroasiatic phonetic notation) Comparative work of the Afroasiatic languages uses a semi-conventionalized set of symbols that are somewhat different than the International Phonetic... 5 KB (393 words) - 11:16, 25 October 2023 |