Definition of afro-asiatic Afro-asiatic
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What does afro-asiatic mean?
WordNet
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| afro-asiatic - 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
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afro-asiatic
A language family spoken throughout the northern part of Africa and the Middle East, including amongst others the Semitic, Cushitic, Chadic, and Berber languages.
