Afroasiatic languages

E11738
language family macrofamily

Afroasiatic languages are a major language family of Africa and parts of Western Asia that includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa.

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All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
Afroasiatic languages canonical 299
Afroasiatic 92
Afro-Asiatic languages 20

Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family ⓘ
macrofamily ⓘ
alternativeName Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afrasian languages

Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages

Hamito-Semitic languages ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
Asia ⓘ
estimatedSpeakers more than 400 million ⓘ
geographicOrigin Northeast Africa ⓘ
adjacent parts of the Near East ⓘ
hasAncientMember Akkadian ⓘ
Ancient Egyptian ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
surface form: Biblical Hebrew

Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Ugaritic
hasSubfamily Berber languages ⓘ
Chadic languages ⓘ
Afroasiatic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Cushitic languages

Egyptian language family ⓘ
Omotic languages ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ
historicalImportance includes some of the earliest attested written languages ⓘ
includesLanguage Akkadian ⓘ
Amharic ⓘ
Ancient Egyptian ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ
Aramaic ⓘ
Berber languages ⓘ
Chadic languages ⓘ
Coptic language ⓘ
surface form: Coptic

Ge'ez ⓘ
surface form: Geʽez

Gurage languages ⓘ
Hausa ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
Kabyle ⓘ
Maltese ⓘ
Oromo ⓘ
Sidamo ⓘ
Somali ⓘ
Tigre ⓘ
Tigrinya ⓘ
Berber languages ⓘ
surface form: Tuareg languages

Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Ugaritic

Wolaytta ⓘ
linguisticTypology mostly fusional ⓘ
nonconcatenative morphology ⓘ
majorReligionAssociated Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ
notableFeature extensive use of root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ
presence of emphatic consonants in many branches ⓘ
reconstructionStatus partially reconstructed proto-language (Proto-Afroasiatic) ⓘ
region East Africa ⓘ
Horn of Africa ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
Sahel ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
surface form: Western Asia
writingSystemUsed Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script

Coptic script ⓘ
Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ
Geʽez script ⓘ
Hebrew script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
Tifinagh ⓘ

Referenced by (439)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Asia → containsMajorLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Judeo-Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
West African languages → includesFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chadic languages
West African languages → includesFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Berber languages → partOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic language family
Tuareg → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Old Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Maghrebi Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Hausa → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Berbers → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Gulf Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
Sudanese Arabic → influencedBy → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
West Africa → hasLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Semitic languages → subclassOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Semitic languages → partOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic language family
Semitic languages → hasParentFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Yemeni Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Hijazi Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
Modern Standard Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Afroasiatic languages → alternativeName → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
Afroasiatic languages → alternativeName → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afrasian languages
Afroasiatic languages → hasSubfamily → Afroasiatic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Sub-Saharan Africa → majorLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Aramaic → partOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic language family
Horn of Africa → majorLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Horn of Africa → majorLanguageBranch → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
East Africa → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Central Africa → majorLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Egyptian Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
Moabite → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Northwest Semitic → subclassOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Egyptians → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Egyptians → ancientLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Edomite → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Tarifit → partOfLanguageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Tarifit → hasLinguisticAncestor → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Proto-Afroasiatic
Tamazight (generic) → subclassOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Tamazight (generic) → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Shilha → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Ammonite → partOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Old South Arabian → subclassOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Zenati languages → subclassOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Zenati languages → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Siwi → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Shenwa → subfamilyOf → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Shenwa → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afroasiatic
Najdi Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Akkadian → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Blue Men of the Sahara → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Shami Arabic → languageFamily → Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages