Afroasiatic

See also: Afro-Asiatic

English

Alternative forms

• Afro-Asiatic

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 — see also Hamito-Semitic

• Dutch: Afro-Aziatisch
• Galician: afroasiático (gl)
• German: afroasiatisch (de)
• Hungarian: afroázsiai (hu)
• Russian: афрази́йский (ru) (afrazíjskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: afroȃzījskī (sh), afrȃzījskī

Proper noun

Afroasiatic

1. The Afro-Asiatic language family.

   Synonyms: (dated) Hamito-Semitic, Afrasian

Translations

of or pertaining to a language family — see also Hamito-Semitic

• German: Afroasiatisch n
• Japanese: アフロ・アジア語族 (Afuro-Ajia-gozoku)