Definition of afrasian Afrasian

Af•ra•sian

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What does afrasian mean?

Noun
afrasian - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
		Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic
		natural language, tongue a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
		chadic, chadic language, chad a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
		semitic a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
		hamitic, hamitic language a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
		egyptian the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC
		berber a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
		cushitic a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions