afro-asiatic in English

adjective
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relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken in the Middle East and North Africa. The family is commonly divided into five groups: Semitic, Omotic, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic. Ancient Egyptian was also a member of this family.
Arabic is a branch of the Semitic languages, which in turn belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family together with Berber, Ancient Egyptian, Chadic, and Cushitic.

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1. The Amharic language is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Southwest Semitic group

2. •!Consonantal-root morphology, famous especially from Semitic.! Berber! •!One branch of Afro-Asiatic

3. Negative forms in b are widespread in Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic languages.

4. Ancient Egyptian has 25 consonants similar to those of other Afro-Asiatic languages.

5. Berber languages, also called Amazigh languages, family of languages in the Afro-Asiatic language phylum

6. Any of the Afro-Asiatic languages Berber - definition of Berber by The Free Dictionary.

7. Historically they spoke various Berber languages, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

8. The Egyptian language is a northern Afro-Asiatic language closely related to the Berber and Semitic languages.

9. Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa; Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages; Places

10. Coptic definition is - an Afro-Asiatic language descended from ancient Egyptian and used as the liturgical language of the Coptic church.

11. Like other proposed Penutian languages, Plateau Penutian languages are rich in ablaut, much like Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages.

12. Entries with "apotelesmatic" Rhymes:English/ætɪk: …Six syllables Afro-Asiatic alleluiatic, halleluiatic Anidiomatic antiperistatic apotelesmatic Australasiatic Austro-Asiatic, Austroasiatic bacteriostatic…

13. Akkadian was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians

14. Coptic language, an Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in Egypt from about the 2nd century ce and that represents the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language.

15. As they are the most homogeneous division within Afro-Asiatic, the Berber languages have often been referred to as a single language in the past (especially in the tradition of French scholarship)

16. An inhabitant of ancient Assyria a modern-day descendant of the ancient Assyrians the language of the ancient Assyrians, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family and regarded as a …

17. Afar, Amharic Adal, Arabic Danakil (singular; now pejorative), a people of the Horn of Africa who speak Afar (also known as ’Afar Af), a language of the Eastern Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

18. Berber is a large family of Afro-Asiatic languages spoken across much of Northern Africa (), mainly in Morocco and Algeria, with small communities in populations in Libya and Egypt.The ISO 639 identifier for the Berber languages is ber.

19. Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʿez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; it also has affinities with Tigré, Tigrinya, and the South Arabic dialects.