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The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [4]
S. Petrollino, "A grammar of Hamar : a South Omotic language of Ethiopia" J. Philips, "Map of West Chadic language distribution" T. Roettger, "Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments" R. Schuh, in "Being and Becoming Hausa" J. Smolders, "A Phonology of Ganza (Gwàmì Nánà)"
Family tree of Afro-Asiatic at Ethnologue.com; Afro-Asiatic and Semitic genealogical trees, presented by Alexander Militarev at his talk "Genealogical classification of Afro-Asiatic languages according to the latest data" at the conference on the 70th anniversary of V.M. Illich-Svitych, Moscow, 2004; short annotations of the talks given there ...
The Language families of Asia. Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic.
English: English version of Afroasiatic german.svg.Map showing the distribution of five of the six major subfamilies belonging to the Afroasiatic (Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic) language family (the sixth, ancient Egyptian, is extinct except for liturgical use of Coptic).
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
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 Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel . They include 196 languages [ 1 ] spoken across northern Nigeria , southern Niger , southern Chad , and northern Cameroon .