afroasiatic – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Afro-Asiatic
adj.
of or pertaining to the family of languages spoken over southwestern Asia and Africa; comprised of Semitic Chadic Cushitic Berber Omotic and Egyptian languages
n.
the family of languages spoken over southwestern Asia and Africa
Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic (
Afro-Asiatic), also known as
Afrasian and traditionally as
Hamito-Semitic (
Chamito-Semitic), is a large
language family of several hundred related languages and dialects. It comprises about 300 or so living languages and dialects, according to the 2009
Ethnologue estimate. It includes languages spoken predominantly in the
Middle East,
North Africa, the
Horn of Africa, and parts of the
Sahel.
Afroasiatic
Noun
1. a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
(synonym) Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic
(hypernym) natural language, tongue
(hyponym) Chad, Chadic, Chadic language
