S09: Languages
 
 

9. Classification of languages - D) The Afro-Asiatic family

 

 

  • Almost 400 languages spoken in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia.

  • Semitic subfamily in Asia and Ethiopia/Eritrea
    (Arabic, Hebrew Neo-Aramaic languages, Ethiopic languages)
    Berber subfamily in N.W.-Africa
    Chadic subfamily in Chad and Nigeria (Hausa)
    Cushitic subfamily in N.E. Africa
    Egyptian subfamily (Coptic)
    Omotic subfamily (Ethiopia)



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