Afroasiatic

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Afroasiatic

adjective Afro-Asiatic

  1. not comparable Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.

    Similar: Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic

proper noun Afro-Asiatic

  1. The language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.

    Similar: Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic

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adj of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia — see also Hamito-Semitic

Deutschafroasiatisch
Русскийафрази́йский afrazíjskij

name language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia — see also Hamito-Semitic

日本語アフロ・アジア語族 Afuro-Ajia gozoku
中文亞非語系 /亚非语系 yàfēiyǔxì
DeutschAfroasiatisch

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@misc{afroasiatic_2026,
  title = {Afroasiatic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/afroasiatic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}