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Afroasiatic

Afroasiatic adjective: 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.

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.

Proper noun

Afroasiatic

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

Synonyms of Afroasiatic

Forms of Afroasiatic

alternative formAfro-Asiatic

Origin of Afroasiatic

From Afro- + Asiatic.

Words formed from Afroasiatic

Questions about Afroasiatic

What does Afroasiatic mean?
Afroasiatic means 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.
What part of speech is Afroasiatic?
Afroasiatic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Afroasiatic in the dictionary

  1. Afro-Seminole Creole
  2. Afro-textured
  3. Afro-Ukrainian
  4. Afro-Ukrainians
  5. afroalpine
  6. Afroasiatic
  7. Afroasiaticist
  8. Afroasiaticists
  9. afrobatrachian
  10. afrobatrachians
  11. afrobeat

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