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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]
Map of the main language families of the world. ... Family Languages [1] Current speakers [2] Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic: 381 499,294,669
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 ...
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.
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"
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Group of languages related through a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a ...
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo.
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 ...