1. Berber languages of North Africa are classified as close relatives of Chadic and Ancient Egyptian in the Afroasiatic Phylum.

2. The Afar language (Afar: QAfaraf) (also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, QAfar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch

3. Noun an Afroasiatic language of Egypt descended from ancient Egyptian, largely extinct as a spoken language since the 16th century but surviving as the liturgical language of the Coptic …

4. The Libyco-Berber script is used today in the form of Tifinagh to write the Tuareg languages, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family

5. The varieties (or dialects or vernacular languages) of Arabic, a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family originating in the Arabian Peninsula, are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively

6. Macdonald ("New Thoughts on a Biliteral Origin for the Semitic Verb," Annual of the Leeds University Oriental Society 5 [1963-1965]: 63-85) and Christopher Ehret ("The Origins of the Third Consonants in Semitic Roots," Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 1 [1989]: 109-202).

7. The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people.It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families