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Afrophone

Afrophone adjective: speaking a language of African origin.

Adjective

Afrophone (not comparable)

  1. Speaking a language of African origin.

Origin of Afrophone

From Afro- + -phone.

Questions about Afrophone

What does Afrophone mean?
Afrophone means speaking a language of African origin.
What part of speech is Afrophone?
Afrophone is an adjective.

Words near Afrophone in the dictionary

  1. Afrophilic
  2. Afrophobe
  3. Afrophobes
  4. Afrophobia
  5. Afrophobic
  6. Afrophone
  7. afropithecine
  8. afropithecines
  9. Afropolitan
  10. Afropolitanism
  11. Afropolitans

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