Afroasiatic

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English

Alternative forms

• Afroasiatic

Etymology

From Afro- +‎ Asiatic.

Adjective

Afroasiatic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and possibly Omotic languages.

   Synonyms: Afrasian, (dated) Hamito-Semitic, (dated) Semito-Hamitic

Translations

of or pertaining to a language family

• Dutch: Afro-Aziatisch
• German: afroasiatisch (de), hamito-semitisch (formerly)
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• Russian: афрази́йский (ru) (afrazíjskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: afroȃzījskī (sh), afrȃzījskī

Proper noun

Afroasiatic

1. The Afro-Asiatic language family.

   Synonym: (dated) Hamito-Semitic