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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which...

The Proto-Afroasiatic homeland is the hypothetical place where speakers of the Proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex...

Silt'e, and Argobba languages. Arabic, which also belongs to the Afroasiatic family, is likewise spoken in some areas. Charles A. Ferguson proposed the...

three working languages. Most residents speak languages from the Afroasiatic family, either of the Ethiopian Semitic languages or Cushitic branches. Among...

of the latter Afroasiatic family, with the Hindustani and British residents speaking languages from the separate Indo-European family. Kenya's various...

language branch belongs to the Afroasiatic language family. Among the typological features of Egyptian that are typically Afroasiatic are its fusional morphology...

belonging to the Berber and Cushitic branches, respectively, of the Afroasiatic family. More recent research instead suggests that the people of the Kerma...

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...

Arabic, the Bishari speak the Beja language, which belongs to the Afroasiatic family of the Cushitic branch. The Bishari live in the eastern part of the...

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...

applied to the Berber, Cushitic, and Egyptian branches of the Afroasiatic language family, which, together with the Semitic branch, was formerly labelled...

also known as Tamasheq, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. They are a semi-nomadic people who practice Islam, and are descended...

Canaan, Syria and the Mesopotamian valley The Semitic family is a member of the larger Afroasiatic family, all of whose other five or more branches have their...

Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri tribes, who inhabit isolated areas of the...

Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic language family. In 980 BC, the Kingdom of D'mt extended its realm over Eritrea...

speak the Soqotri language, a Modern South Arabian language in the Afroasiatic family. The Soqotri primarily inhabit the Socotra Archipelago, on Socotra...

languages from the Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan languages or Indo-European languages. According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations...

the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Their continuity has been broken by the spread of Arabic, and to...

language, one of the Zenati languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Mozabites are primarily Ibadi Muslims, but there was a small population...