afro-asiatic

Noun
  1. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa (synset 106999218)
    is a type of: natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
    subtypes:
    • chad, chadic, chadic language - a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
    • semitic - a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
    • hamitic, hamitic language - a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
    • egyptian - the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC
    • berber - a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
    • cushitic - a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
    • omotic - a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages
    same as: afrasian, afrasian language, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic

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