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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)"
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).
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.
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 .
Map based upon File:Africa location map.svg by Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) Data from Blench, Roger (2006) Archaeology, Language, and the African Past , Rowman Altamira, pp. 105−107 Retrieved on 30 June 2013.
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo.
1 Afro-Asiatic languages. 2 Altaic, Koreanic and Japonic languages. ... This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern ...