Afroasiatic

See also: Afro-Asiatic

English

Alternative forms

• Afro-Asiatic

Etymology

From Afro- +‎ Asiatic.

Adjective

Afroasiatic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.

   Synonyms: Afrasian, (dated) Hamito-Semitic, (dated) Semito-Hamitic

Derived terms

• Afroasiaticist
• Proto-Afroasiatic

Translations

of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia — see also Hamito-Semitic

• Dutch: Afro-Aziatisch
• Finnish: afroaasialainen (fi)
• Galician: afroasiático (gl)
• German: afroasiatisch (de)
• Hungarian: afroázsiai (hu)
• Russian: афрази́йский (ru) (afrazíjskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: афроа̑зӣјскӣ, please add this translation if you can

  Roman: afroȃzījskī (sh), afrȃzījskī

• Swedish: afroasiatisk (sv)

Proper noun

Afroasiatic

1. (linguistics) The language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.

   Synonyms: (uncommon) Afrasian, (dated) Hamito-Semitic

Translations

language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia — see also Hamito-Semitic

• Finnish: afroaasialainen kielikunta
• German: Afroasiatisch n
• Irish: Afra-Áisic f
• Japanese: アフロ・アジア語族 (アフロ・アジアごぞく, Afuro-Ajia gozoku)