Afrasian

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Afrasian - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa

Afrasian language, Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic 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

Omotic - a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages

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Other signs (~, ~ [bi]) belong to signs of the Libyan letter--a branch of Afrasian languages, native speakers of them splited up near the Libyan Desert in III millennia BC, and a certain part of migrants has appeared on the Iranian plateau, and then has moved to territory of a Turkic and Aryan ecumenes.

El antiguo libro turco de razonamiento y revelacion "Irqbitig" del siglo X

Afrasian Khattak said the government which had marginalized itself by marginalizing the parliament should bring the issue in the house to find a broader national consensus about its response to Middle Eastern crises.

Speakers at Seminar urge for national unity to respond Middle Eastern crises

However, it generally tends to deal with old debates related to the Southeast Asia-East Africa connections, and it would have been more compelling if the volume had paid closer attention to the new areas of the Indian Ocean's cultural history, intellectual interactions, and the contemporary Afrasian imaginations of such early contacts (as with Edward Curtis' 2014 study, The Call of Bilal).

Early Exchange Between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

"Ethnicity and the State in Africa." Working Paper Series 7 (2006):1-21, Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University.