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The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). Other names sometimes given to this family include "Afrasian", "Hamito-Semitic" (deprecated), "Lisramic" (Hodge 1972), "Erythraean" (Tucker 1966).
The family includes the following language subfamilies:
- Berber languages
- Chadic languages
- Egyptian languages
- Semitic languages
- Cushitic languages
- Beja language (subclassification controversial; widely classified as part of Cushitic)
- Omotic languages
Hebrew (×¢Ö´×ְרִ×ת, âIvrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Modern Hebrew is http://bit.ly/3GrdHJ
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Hebrew (עִבְרִית, ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Modern Hebrew is http://bit.ly/3GrdHJ
Afro-Asiatic Index Project - Etymological database of Afroasiatic languages, outgrowth of the Cushitic Lexicon Project. History and report downloads.
Bibliography of Highland East Cushitic - A bibliography of Eastern Cushitic languages spoken south-central Ethiopia, compiled by Prof. Grover Hudson of Michigan State University. The principal languages of the group are Hadiyya, Kambaata, Sidaama, Gedeo (formerly termed Darasa), and Burji.
Maarav - A journal for the study of the Northwest Semitic languages and literatures (published in Rolling Hills Estates, CA, USA).
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Semitic Linguistics - Class Notes - Class notes for a course on Semitic linguistics offered at the University of Western Australia, containing an overview of the language family, and detailed information on its writing systems, phonology and morphology, with particular attention to its verbal systems.
The Afro-Asiatic Languages - Classification and Reference List - A scholarly classification of the language family, by Roger Blench.
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