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  2. Afroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. File:Detailed Afroasiatic map.svg - Wikipedia

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    R. Meyer and H. E. Wolff, "Comparative and Descriptive African Linguistics" S. Petrollino, "A grammar of Hamar : a South Omotic language of Ethiopia" J. Philips, "Map of West Chadic language distribution" T. Roettger, "Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments"

  4. Proto-Afroasiatic homeland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. File:Afroasiatic languages-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: English version of Afroasiatic german.svg.Map showing the distribution of five of the six major subfamilies belonging to the Afroasiatic (Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic) language family (the sixth, ancient Egyptian, is extinct except for liturgical use of Coptic).

  6. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    A number of sign languages are spoken throughout Asia. These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as well as a number of small indigenous sign languages of countries such as Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Many official sign languages are part of the French Sign Language family.

  7. List of ancestor languages - Wikipedia

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    1 Afro-Asiatic languages. 2 Altaic, Koreanic and Japonic languages. 3 Austroasiatic languages. ... 5 Indigenous languages of the Americas. 6 Sino-Tibetan languages. 7 ...

  8. Afro-Asians - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. deployment of forces to South Korea between 1950 and 1954 resulted in a multitude of Afro-Asian births, mostly between native South Korean women and African-American servicemen. While many of these births have been to married African-American and Korean interracial couples, others have been born out-of-wedlock through

  9. Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    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 ...