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Afroasiatic languages

Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also called Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic[1] or Semito-Hamitic,[2] is a large language family. They are mainly spoken in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel.[3] There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken. About 495 million people speak an Afroasiatic language as their first language.[4] There are six branches of the language family: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. The most spoken language is Arabic, a Semitic language. It has around 313 million native speakers.[5]

Afroasiatic
Geographic
distribution:		Malta, Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel, West Asia
Linguistic classification:One of the world's primary language families
Proto-language:Proto-Afroasiatic
Subdivisions:
ISO 639-2 and 639-5:afa
Detailed Afroasiatic map.svg
Distribution of the Afro-Asiatic languages

The name "Semito-Hamitic" comes from Shem and Ham, two sons of Noah in Genesis.

Afroasiatic Languages Media

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    A diagram of the six widely recognized branches of the Afroasiatic family, including some of the larger or more culturally significant languages in each branch.

  • Seal impression from the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (c. 2690 BCE), containing the first complete sentence in Ancient Egyptian.[6]

  • Distribution of ethnic groups in Africa (Afroasiatic/Hamito-Semitic-speaking in yellow)

  • Speech sample in Shilha (Berber branch)

  • Speech sample in the Semitic Neo-Aramaic language, a descendant of Old Aramaic

  • Speech sample in Somali (Cushitic branch)

  • Speech sample in Classical Arabic (Semitic branch)

References

  1. ↑ Katzner, Kenneth. The Languages of the World (2002)Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1134532889. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Robert Hetzron, "Afroasiatic Languages" in Bernard Comrie, The World's Major Languages, 2009, ISBN 113426156X, p. 545
  3. ↑ Browse by Language Family. ethnologue.com. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Summary by language family. ethnologue.comEthnologue. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Arabic. ethnologue.comEthnologue. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Allen 2013, p. 2.


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