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The name refers to the fact that it is the only major language family with large populations in both Africa and Asia. [14] Due to concerns that "Afroasiatic" could imply the inclusion of all languages spoken across Africa and Asia, the name "Afrasian" (Russian: afrazijskije) was proposed by Igor Diakonoff in 1980. At present it predominantly ...
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"
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).
A Northeast African homeland has been proposed by linguists as the origin of the language group largely because it includes the geographic center of its present distribution and the majority of the diversity observed among the Afroasiatic language family, sometimes considered a telltale sign for a linguistic geographic origin.
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.
This article is a list of language families.This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families".
Pages in category "Afroasiatic languages" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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