Afroasiatic Languages

Afroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. Afroasiatic is generally considered to be composed of the language families Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic. Well-known Afroasiatic languages include Arabic, Ancient Egyptian, Somali, Tuareg, and Hausa. There are approximately four hundred Afroasiatic languages, either living or recorded but extinct. They have been written with scripts ranging from hieroglyphs and cuneiform to alphabets and abjads (scripts that notate consonants but that do not fully...

Afroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. Afroasiatic is generally considered to be composed of the language families Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic. Well-known Afroasiatic languages include Arabic, Ancient Egyptian, Somali, Tuareg, and Hausa. There are approximately four hundred Afroasiatic languages, either living or recorded but extinct. They have been written with scripts ranging from hieroglyphs and cuneiform to alphabets and abjads (scripts that notate consonants but that do not fully indicate vowels).