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Due to the presumed distance of relationship between the various branches, many scholars prefer to refer to Afroasiatic as a "linguistic phylum" rather than a "language family". [26] G.W. Tsereteli goes even further and outright doubts that the Afro-Asiatic languages are a genetic language family altogether, but are rather a sprachbund. [27]
Family tree of Afro-Asiatic at Ethnologue.com; Afro-Asiatic and Semitic genealogical trees, presented by Alexander Militarev at his talk "Genealogical classification of Afro-Asiatic languages according to the latest data" at the conference on the 70th anniversary of V.M. Illich-Svitych, Moscow, 2004; short annotations of the talks given there ...
However, in all likelihood these languages began to diverge well before this hard boundary. [4] The estimations offered by scholars as to when Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken vary widely, ranging from 18,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. [3] An estimate at the youngest end of this range still makes Afroasiatic the oldest proven language family. [5]
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic , Amharic , Tigrinya , Aramaic , Hebrew , Maltese and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia , North Africa , [ a ] the Horn of Africa , [ b ] [ c ] Malta , [ d ] and in large ...
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 ...
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.
This article is a list of language families. ... Family Languages [1] Current speakers [2] Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic: 381 499,294,669 Africa, Eurasia:
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages [a] or Tamazight, [b] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages [ 3 ] spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa .