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 languages have 350+ million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family. It has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic (including literary Arabic and the spoken colloquial varieties), which has around 200 to 230 million native speakers concentrated primarily in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa.Tamazight and other Berber varieties are spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, northern Mali, and northern Niger by about 25 to 35 million people. Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages include:
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The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The ...
published: 22 Jul 2023
History of the Afroasiatic languages (Timeline)
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.Arabic, if counted as a single language, is by far the most widely spoken within the fami...
published: 22 Jul 2023
The History Of The Afroasiatic Languages
A Brief And simplified History Of The Afroasiatic Languages
published: 28 Jul 2019
Afro-Asiatic Languages | Word Comparison
A comparison between languages from the Afroasiatic language family!
The Afroasiatic family includes five branches (excluding Omotic):
- Cushitic (here represented by Oromo and Somali)
- Chadic (represented by Hausa)
- Semitic (represented by Arabic and Hebrew)
- Egyptian (represented by ancient Egyptian)
- Berber (represented by central Atlas Tamazight)
published: 17 Nov 2022
Sound of Afroasiatic Languages
Sound of Afroasiatic languages.
Afroasiatic is a language spoken by Middle eastern and Horn African peoples.
It is divided in 5 branches:
*Berber languages
*Cushitic languages
*Omotic languages
*Semitic languages
*Egyptian languages (extinct)
Afro-asiatic peoples built the greatest civilisations and empires on earth(Egyptian,Babylonian,Sumerian,Carthagian,Assyrian,Islamic and Abyssinian empire).
The great religions ( Judaism , Islam and Christianism) are all from Afroasiatic peoples.
Aramaic was spoken by Jesus Christ,the founder of Christianism.
Hebrew is the language of Judaism.
Arabic is still used by muslims around the world as liturgical language.
published: 19 Aug 2018
AFRO-ASIATIC: SOMALI & HAUSA
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What if the Afroasiatic World United? Greater Arabia/Israel/Somalia
Who are the Afroasiatic peoples and what if the whole of the Afroasiatic world united as a single country? Such diverse groups as the Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, Maltese, Assyrians and Somalis may not appear to have much in common on the surface, but there are many linguistic, cultural and genetic links between these groups that have led to various unification movements in the past.
Today we will be discussing some of the history and genetics of the Afroasiatic peoples and various nationalist/unification movements that have had a large impact in the past and in the present day. Thanks for watching!
Masamap: https://www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/c5rdfj/masamap_3_afroasiatic_world_and_peoples/
Sources:
http://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-east-african-cluster.html
https://an...
published: 26 Jun 2019
Is Ancient Egyptian Afro-Asiatic???
I made this whole video because of one commenter, so I hope they watch it!
Egyptian words: http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/transliteration/ancient_egypt_dictionary.pdf
Old Nubian words: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25449/1004646.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
published: 28 Jun 2021
Origins of Afro Asiatic languages 2023
Here we look at the origins of the Afro Asiatic language group, from its origins dating back to the last ice age in the Levant… and into Saudi Arabia and down the coast to the horn, and changing… to entering the Egyptian delta and past, to mingle with endemics there and become the Libco Berber language in North Africa ( which was all called Lybia at the time) and expanding to the horners and deep across the Sahara Desert… and eventually Africa, which was named by and for endemic caucasian people of North Africa. We also take a look at the “flaxen haired originators of Egypt” and joe tho the waned a little in the Middle Kingdom to intermediate period, it regained its prominence in the 18th dynasty ( Tuthmoses , Akhenaten , king Tut… on to SETI and Ramses ect…) and their own reserve heads sh...
published: 04 Jul 2023
The Languages of Africa
My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa.
Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gbsoD71MNajMJFncLzZjz4E7AZnhoUhgPwGq9H5jSK8/
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At first, the map of Africa's many languages seems complicated. However, in just a few minutes we'll learn how linguists classified them into just five families. Once we meet Africa's language areas, the five families begin to fall apart.
We'll leave with a complicated picture of families, hypothetical groups and many isolates and debated classifications. Along the way, come to appreciate Africa's diverse peopl...
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The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.
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The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.
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Submit your recordings to [email protected].
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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 40...
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.Arabic, if counted as a single language, is by far the most widely spoken within the family, with around 300 million native speakers concentrated primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. Other major Afroasiatic languages include the Chadic Hausa language with over 34 million speakers, the Semitic Amharic language with 25 million, and the Cushitic Somali language with 15 million. Other Afroasiatic languages with millions of native speakers include the Cushitic Sidaama language, the Semitic Tigrinya language and the Omotic Wolaitta language, though most languages within the family are much smaller in size. There are many well-attested Afroasiatic languages from antiquity that have since died or gone extinct, including Egyptian and the Semitic languages Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite, and Ugaritic. There is no consensus among historical linguists as to precisely where or when the common ancestor of all Afroasiatic languages, known as Proto-Afroasiatic, was originally spoken. However, most agree that the Afroasiatic homeland was located somewhere in northeastern Africa, with specific proposals including the Horn of Africa, Egypt, the eastern Sahara, and the Levant. The reconstructed timelines of when Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken vary extensively, with dates ranging from 18,000 BC to 8,000 BC. Even the latest plausible dating makes Afroasiatic the oldest language family accepted by contemporary linguists.
«00:00 — Introduction
«00:02 — Prehistoriс Era
«02:14 — Ancient Era
«03:14 — Classical Era
«03:36 — Medieval Era
«04:10 — Modern Era
«04:30 — Credits
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.Arabic, if counted as a single language, is by far the most widely spoken within the family, with around 300 million native speakers concentrated primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. Other major Afroasiatic languages include the Chadic Hausa language with over 34 million speakers, the Semitic Amharic language with 25 million, and the Cushitic Somali language with 15 million. Other Afroasiatic languages with millions of native speakers include the Cushitic Sidaama language, the Semitic Tigrinya language and the Omotic Wolaitta language, though most languages within the family are much smaller in size. There are many well-attested Afroasiatic languages from antiquity that have since died or gone extinct, including Egyptian and the Semitic languages Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite, and Ugaritic. There is no consensus among historical linguists as to precisely where or when the common ancestor of all Afroasiatic languages, known as Proto-Afroasiatic, was originally spoken. However, most agree that the Afroasiatic homeland was located somewhere in northeastern Africa, with specific proposals including the Horn of Africa, Egypt, the eastern Sahara, and the Levant. The reconstructed timelines of when Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken vary extensively, with dates ranging from 18,000 BC to 8,000 BC. Even the latest plausible dating makes Afroasiatic the oldest language family accepted by contemporary linguists.
«00:00 — Introduction
«00:02 — Prehistoriс Era
«02:14 — Ancient Era
«03:14 — Classical Era
«03:36 — Medieval Era
«04:10 — Modern Era
«04:30 — Credits
A comparison between languages from the Afroasiatic language family!
The Afroasiatic family includes five branches (excluding Omotic):
- Cushitic (here represen...
A comparison between languages from the Afroasiatic language family!
The Afroasiatic family includes five branches (excluding Omotic):
- Cushitic (here represented by Oromo and Somali)
- Chadic (represented by Hausa)
- Semitic (represented by Arabic and Hebrew)
- Egyptian (represented by ancient Egyptian)
- Berber (represented by central Atlas Tamazight)
A comparison between languages from the Afroasiatic language family!
The Afroasiatic family includes five branches (excluding Omotic):
- Cushitic (here represented by Oromo and Somali)
- Chadic (represented by Hausa)
- Semitic (represented by Arabic and Hebrew)
- Egyptian (represented by ancient Egyptian)
- Berber (represented by central Atlas Tamazight)
Sound of Afroasiatic languages.
Afroasiatic is a language spoken by Middle eastern and Horn African peoples.
It is divided in 5 branches:
*Berber languages
*Cus...
Sound of Afroasiatic languages.
Afroasiatic is a language spoken by Middle eastern and Horn African peoples.
It is divided in 5 branches:
*Berber languages
*Cushitic languages
*Omotic languages
*Semitic languages
*Egyptian languages (extinct)
Afro-asiatic peoples built the greatest civilisations and empires on earth(Egyptian,Babylonian,Sumerian,Carthagian,Assyrian,Islamic and Abyssinian empire).
The great religions ( Judaism , Islam and Christianism) are all from Afroasiatic peoples.
Aramaic was spoken by Jesus Christ,the founder of Christianism.
Hebrew is the language of Judaism.
Arabic is still used by muslims around the world as liturgical language.
Sound of Afroasiatic languages.
Afroasiatic is a language spoken by Middle eastern and Horn African peoples.
It is divided in 5 branches:
*Berber languages
*Cushitic languages
*Omotic languages
*Semitic languages
*Egyptian languages (extinct)
Afro-asiatic peoples built the greatest civilisations and empires on earth(Egyptian,Babylonian,Sumerian,Carthagian,Assyrian,Islamic and Abyssinian empire).
The great religions ( Judaism , Islam and Christianism) are all from Afroasiatic peoples.
Aramaic was spoken by Jesus Christ,the founder of Christianism.
Hebrew is the language of Judaism.
Arabic is still used by muslims around the world as liturgical language.
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together.
Please feel free to subscribe to see more of thi...
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together.
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If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
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Who are the Afroasiatic peoples and what if the whole of the Afroasiatic world united as a single country? Such diverse groups as the Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, M...
Who are the Afroasiatic peoples and what if the whole of the Afroasiatic world united as a single country? Such diverse groups as the Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, Maltese, Assyrians and Somalis may not appear to have much in common on the surface, but there are many linguistic, cultural and genetic links between these groups that have led to various unification movements in the past.
Today we will be discussing some of the history and genetics of the Afroasiatic peoples and various nationalist/unification movements that have had a large impact in the past and in the present day. Thanks for watching!
Masamap: https://www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/c5rdfj/masamap_3_afroasiatic_world_and_peoples/
Sources:
http://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-east-african-cluster.html
https://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/06/sudanese-arabs-beni-ameri-beja-and.html
http://www.dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-global-survey-regional-affinities.pdf
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/14/are-sudanese-arabs/
Who are the Afroasiatic peoples and what if the whole of the Afroasiatic world united as a single country? Such diverse groups as the Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, Maltese, Assyrians and Somalis may not appear to have much in common on the surface, but there are many linguistic, cultural and genetic links between these groups that have led to various unification movements in the past.
Today we will be discussing some of the history and genetics of the Afroasiatic peoples and various nationalist/unification movements that have had a large impact in the past and in the present day. Thanks for watching!
Masamap: https://www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/c5rdfj/masamap_3_afroasiatic_world_and_peoples/
Sources:
http://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-east-african-cluster.html
https://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/06/sudanese-arabs-beni-ameri-beja-and.html
http://www.dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-global-survey-regional-affinities.pdf
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/14/are-sudanese-arabs/
I made this whole video because of one commenter, so I hope they watch it!
Egyptian words: http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/transliteration/ancient_egypt_diction...
I made this whole video because of one commenter, so I hope they watch it!
Egyptian words: http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/transliteration/ancient_egypt_dictionary.pdf
Old Nubian words: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25449/1004646.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
I made this whole video because of one commenter, so I hope they watch it!
Egyptian words: http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/transliteration/ancient_egypt_dictionary.pdf
Old Nubian words: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25449/1004646.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Here we look at the origins of the Afro Asiatic language group, from its origins dating back to the last ice age in the Levant… and into Saudi Arabia and down t...
Here we look at the origins of the Afro Asiatic language group, from its origins dating back to the last ice age in the Levant… and into Saudi Arabia and down the coast to the horn, and changing… to entering the Egyptian delta and past, to mingle with endemics there and become the Libco Berber language in North Africa ( which was all called Lybia at the time) and expanding to the horners and deep across the Sahara Desert… and eventually Africa, which was named by and for endemic caucasian people of North Africa. We also take a look at the “flaxen haired originators of Egypt” and joe tho the waned a little in the Middle Kingdom to intermediate period, it regained its prominence in the 18th dynasty ( Tuthmoses , Akhenaten , king Tut… on to SETI and Ramses ect…) and their own reserve heads show it, and Hemuinu: the Architect of the Great Pyramid itself, what do you see…?
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Here we look at the origins of the Afro Asiatic language group, from its origins dating back to the last ice age in the Levant… and into Saudi Arabia and down the coast to the horn, and changing… to entering the Egyptian delta and past, to mingle with endemics there and become the Libco Berber language in North Africa ( which was all called Lybia at the time) and expanding to the horners and deep across the Sahara Desert… and eventually Africa, which was named by and for endemic caucasian people of North Africa. We also take a look at the “flaxen haired originators of Egypt” and joe tho the waned a little in the Middle Kingdom to intermediate period, it regained its prominence in the 18th dynasty ( Tuthmoses , Akhenaten , king Tut… on to SETI and Ramses ect…) and their own reserve heads show it, and Hemuinu: the Architect of the Great Pyramid itself, what do you see…?
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My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa.
Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: https:...
My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa.
Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gbsoD71MNajMJFncLzZjz4E7AZnhoUhgPwGq9H5jSK8/
Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang
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~ Briefly ~
At first, the map of Africa's many languages seems complicated. However, in just a few minutes we'll learn how linguists classified them into just five families. Once we meet Africa's language areas, the five families begin to fall apart.
We'll leave with a complicated picture of families, hypothetical groups and many isolates and debated classifications. Along the way, come to appreciate Africa's diverse peoples and languages.
~ Credits ~
Art, narration, animation and some of the music by Josh from NativLang
Sources for claims made, and full credits for music, fonts, sfx:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hihfgik9supmLFEnyMmQF9iKgnmX-M1hSJG20TgseTM/
Music:
Please see my doc above. I created the opening piece, the outro and one reprise from Thoth's Pill in the middle. The rest of the credit goes to:
Silver Flame by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4362-silver-flame
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Infados by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3914-infados
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa.
Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gbsoD71MNajMJFncLzZjz4E7AZnhoUhgPwGq9H5jSK8/
Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang
Become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/NativLang
~ Briefly ~
At first, the map of Africa's many languages seems complicated. However, in just a few minutes we'll learn how linguists classified them into just five families. Once we meet Africa's language areas, the five families begin to fall apart.
We'll leave with a complicated picture of families, hypothetical groups and many isolates and debated classifications. Along the way, come to appreciate Africa's diverse peoples and languages.
~ Credits ~
Art, narration, animation and some of the music by Josh from NativLang
Sources for claims made, and full credits for music, fonts, sfx:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hihfgik9supmLFEnyMmQF9iKgnmX-M1hSJG20TgseTM/
Music:
Please see my doc above. I created the opening piece, the outro and one reprise from Thoth's Pill in the middle. The rest of the credit goes to:
Silver Flame by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4362-silver-flame
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Infados by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3914-infados
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together.
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The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.
If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
Looking forward to hearing from you!
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.Arabic, if counted as a single language, is by far the most widely spoken within the family, with around 300 million native speakers concentrated primarily in the Middle East and North Africa. Other major Afroasiatic languages include the Chadic Hausa language with over 34 million speakers, the Semitic Amharic language with 25 million, and the Cushitic Somali language with 15 million. Other Afroasiatic languages with millions of native speakers include the Cushitic Sidaama language, the Semitic Tigrinya language and the Omotic Wolaitta language, though most languages within the family are much smaller in size. There are many well-attested Afroasiatic languages from antiquity that have since died or gone extinct, including Egyptian and the Semitic languages Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite, and Ugaritic. There is no consensus among historical linguists as to precisely where or when the common ancestor of all Afroasiatic languages, known as Proto-Afroasiatic, was originally spoken. However, most agree that the Afroasiatic homeland was located somewhere in northeastern Africa, with specific proposals including the Horn of Africa, Egypt, the eastern Sahara, and the Levant. The reconstructed timelines of when Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken vary extensively, with dates ranging from 18,000 BC to 8,000 BC. Even the latest plausible dating makes Afroasiatic the oldest language family accepted by contemporary linguists.
«00:00 — Introduction
«00:02 — Prehistoriс Era
«02:14 — Ancient Era
«03:14 — Classical Era
«03:36 — Medieval Era
«04:10 — Modern Era
«04:30 — Credits
A comparison between languages from the Afroasiatic language family!
The Afroasiatic family includes five branches (excluding Omotic):
- Cushitic (here represented by Oromo and Somali)
- Chadic (represented by Hausa)
- Semitic (represented by Arabic and Hebrew)
- Egyptian (represented by ancient Egyptian)
- Berber (represented by central Atlas Tamazight)
Sound of Afroasiatic languages.
Afroasiatic is a language spoken by Middle eastern and Horn African peoples.
It is divided in 5 branches:
*Berber languages
*Cushitic languages
*Omotic languages
*Semitic languages
*Egyptian languages (extinct)
Afro-asiatic peoples built the greatest civilisations and empires on earth(Egyptian,Babylonian,Sumerian,Carthagian,Assyrian,Islamic and Abyssinian empire).
The great religions ( Judaism , Islam and Christianism) are all from Afroasiatic peoples.
Aramaic was spoken by Jesus Christ,the founder of Christianism.
Hebrew is the language of Judaism.
Arabic is still used by muslims around the world as liturgical language.
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Who are the Afroasiatic peoples and what if the whole of the Afroasiatic world united as a single country? Such diverse groups as the Jews, Arabs, Ethiopians, Maltese, Assyrians and Somalis may not appear to have much in common on the surface, but there are many linguistic, cultural and genetic links between these groups that have led to various unification movements in the past.
Today we will be discussing some of the history and genetics of the Afroasiatic peoples and various nationalist/unification movements that have had a large impact in the past and in the present day. Thanks for watching!
Masamap: https://www.reddit.com/r/Masastan/comments/c5rdfj/masamap_3_afroasiatic_world_and_peoples/
Sources:
http://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-east-african-cluster.html
https://anthromadness.blogspot.com/2015/06/sudanese-arabs-beni-ameri-beja-and.html
http://www.dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-global-survey-regional-affinities.pdf
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/14/are-sudanese-arabs/
I made this whole video because of one commenter, so I hope they watch it!
Egyptian words: http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/transliteration/ancient_egypt_dictionary.pdf
Old Nubian words: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25449/1004646.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Here we look at the origins of the Afro Asiatic language group, from its origins dating back to the last ice age in the Levant… and into Saudi Arabia and down the coast to the horn, and changing… to entering the Egyptian delta and past, to mingle with endemics there and become the Libco Berber language in North Africa ( which was all called Lybia at the time) and expanding to the horners and deep across the Sahara Desert… and eventually Africa, which was named by and for endemic caucasian people of North Africa. We also take a look at the “flaxen haired originators of Egypt” and joe tho the waned a little in the Middle Kingdom to intermediate period, it regained its prominence in the 18th dynasty ( Tuthmoses , Akhenaten , king Tut… on to SETI and Ramses ect…) and their own reserve heads show it, and Hemuinu: the Architect of the Great Pyramid itself, what do you see…?
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My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa.
Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gbsoD71MNajMJFncLzZjz4E7AZnhoUhgPwGq9H5jSK8/
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~ Briefly ~
At first, the map of Africa's many languages seems complicated. However, in just a few minutes we'll learn how linguists classified them into just five families. Once we meet Africa's language areas, the five families begin to fall apart.
We'll leave with a complicated picture of families, hypothetical groups and many isolates and debated classifications. Along the way, come to appreciate Africa's diverse peoples and languages.
~ Credits ~
Art, narration, animation and some of the music by Josh from NativLang
Sources for claims made, and full credits for music, fonts, sfx:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hihfgik9supmLFEnyMmQF9iKgnmX-M1hSJG20TgseTM/
Music:
Please see my doc above. I created the opening piece, the outro and one reprise from Thoth's Pill in the middle. The rest of the credit goes to:
Silver Flame by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4362-silver-flame
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Infados by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3914-infados
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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 languages have 350+ million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family. It has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic (including literary Arabic and the spoken colloquial varieties), which has around 200 to 230 million native speakers concentrated primarily in the Middle East and in parts of North Africa.Tamazight and other Berber varieties are spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, northern Mali, and northern Niger by about 25 to 35 million people. Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages include:
Take lexicons of ancient languages (and proto-languages) which might be compared to Minoan independently of a specific language family (like Indo-European, Semitic, Afro-Asiatic, etc.), e.g., Ancient...
Statewide as of 2022, there were about 6,000 people in Florida out of a total population of about 22 million who were foreign-born and spoke Amharic, Somali or other Afro-Asiatic Language, according ...
The Oxford Dictionary defines Semitic as. Relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
... high civilization before they were pillaged by the white Greeks who only know how to steal(though more generous accounts of the Greeks insist they weren’t really white/European and more Afro-Asiatic).
Eds. This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content ... Oral origins ... The majority of the community spoke a dialect of Tamazight, an Afro-Asiatic language distinct from Arabic ... ....
Cats are beloved pets known for their hunting prowess ... The Afro-Asiatic Wildcat was eager to address this problem and people were enthusiastic about the free pest control ... × This page requires Javascript ... Please enable it in your browser settings.
MUNCIE, Ind. – Cats are beloved pets known for their hunting prowess ... The Afro-Asiatic Wildcat was eager to address this problem and people were enthusiastic about the free pest control ... A simple way to protect wildlife is to keep cats indoors.
They titled the paper 'AttackHelicopters and White Supremacy... a 'V-22 Osprey' and an 'F-16 fighter jet.' ... Other 'malicious responses' included students who said their race was 'Afro/Klingon-Asiatic Galapogayation' and their gender was 'Aerosol.' ... .
This, I admit, amuses me ... Many, in fact, found the whole thing absurd ... Trigger warning. !.Subject ... Some of the other “malicious responses” included respondents saying their race was “Afro/Klingon-Asiatic Galapogayation” and their gender was “Aerosol.” ... .
A fighter with a notorious UkrainianNazi group has been receiving medical treatment in Israel... Деталі ... Historians, of course, have taken more nuanced views, with some even conceiving of ancient Greece as a very largely Afro-Asiatic civilization ... .
The ALP deserves more fantastic students in its ranks ... He walked me through the Tigrinya variation of the Ge’ez alphabet, a script which originated as a consonant-only alphabet that is now used for several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages ... .
...Europeans (given the greater geographic distance of NW Europe from Africa-Asia), while in Southern and Eastern Europe, conflict with Afro-Asiatic non-Europeans was an important part of ethnogenesis.