Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all...

The Proto-Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the Proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex...

Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language...

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

nearly all Semitic languages as well as in most other Afroasiatic languages, and they are generally reconstructed as glottalization in Proto-Semitic. Thus...

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...

of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Cushitic Proto-Berber Proto-Chadic...

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...

based on Blench (2006). Proto-Bantu language Proto-Afroasiatic language Haplogroup E-M2 Güldemann, Tom (2011). "Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal...

The proto-human language (also proto-sapiens, proto-world) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. The concept...

language). The languages have around 7.9 million speakers. The group is generally classified as belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, but this...

Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...

Comparative work of the Afroasiatic languages uses a semi-conventionalized set of symbols that are somewhat different than the International Phonetic...

Semitic languages in particular. There are multiple possibilities: perhaps Egyptian had already undergone radical changes from Proto-Afroasiatic before...

linguistics. Some universally accepted proto-languages are Proto-Afroasiatic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, and Proto-Dravidian. In a few fortuitous instances...

Afrasian (his term for Afroasiatic), Kartvelian, Dravidian, a group comprising Sumerian, Elamitic, and some other extinct languages of the ancient Near East...

Ethiosemitic and Sayhadic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In...

the 1990s and 2000s, researchers attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Afroasiatic language, suggesting it likely arose between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago...

al Hasa (WHS 784) Asia portal Prehistory of the Levant Proto-Afroasiatic language Afroasiatic Urheimat "Natufian". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...

Proto-Arabic is the name given to the hypothetical reconstructed ancestor of all the varieties of Arabic attested since the 9th century BC. There are...

after the Afroasiatic Egyptian language and Semitic languages. The analysis of the family relationships between the Indo-European languages, and the reconstruction...

younger than Afroasiatic (c. 10,000 BC: 33  or 11,000 to 16,000 BC: 35–36  according to different sources). Classification of the Japonic languages Nostratic...

daughter language of Proto-Semitic, which is a daughter language of Proto-Afroasiatic. Hiligaynon and Cebuano are daughter languages of Proto-Visayan,...

hypothetical proto-Semitic region of origin is therefore dependent on the larger geographic distributions of the other language families within Afroasiatic, whose...

gene-flow, certain animals and crops and the likely spread of Proto-Afroasiatic language into the region. Mesopotamian influences can be seen in the visual...

years ago. There are two hypotheses about the origin of the Proto-Afroasiatic languages, the Levant theory and the African continental theory. According...

Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a...

compounds Personal Attack Alarm Piezo Audio Amplifier Proto-Afroasiatic language Proto-Austroasiatic language Piecewise Aggregate Approximation [zh], dimension...

of the Proto-Uralic language include: The vicinity of the Volga River, west of the Urals, close to the Urheimat of the Indo-European languages, or to...

back to Proto-Afroasiatic or whether one or the other of them was the original form of the Afroasiatic verb. According to one study of the Proto-Semitic...