Afrasian — noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa • Syn: ↑Afroasiatic, ↑Afro Asiatic, ↑Afroasiatic language, ↑Afrasian language, ↑Hamito Semitic • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue … Useful english dictionary
natural language — noun a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language • Syn: ↑tongue • Ant: ↑artificial language • Hypernyms: ↑language, ↑linguistic communication • … Useful english dictionary
Afroasiatic language — noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa • Syn: ↑Afroasiatic, ↑Afro Asiatic, ↑Afrasian, ↑Afrasian language, ↑Hamito Semitic • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue … Useful english dictionary
Chadic language — noun a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa • Syn: ↑Chad, ↑Chadic • Hypernyms: ↑Afroasiatic, ↑Afro Asiatic, ↑Afroasiatic language, ↑Afrasian, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Hamitic language — noun a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic • Syn: ↑Hamitic • Hypernyms: ↑Afroasiatic, ↑Afro Asiatic, ↑Afroasiatic language, ↑Afrasian, ↑Afrasian language, ↑Hamito Semitic … Useful english dictionary
Egyptian language — Infobox Language name=Egyptian nativename= transl|egy|r n km.t r:Z1 n km m t:O49 region=Ancient Egypt extinct=evolved into Demotic by 600 BC, into Coptic by AD 200, and was extinct (not spoken as a day to day language) by the 17th century. It… … Wikipedia
Soqotri language — Infobox Language name=Soqotri states=Yemen speakers=64,000 familycolor=Afro Asiatic fam2=Semitic fam3=West Semitic fam4=South Semitic fam5=Modern South Arabian iso3=sqt Soqotri (soq. méthel d saqátri, arab. اللغة السقطرية) is the language of the… … Wikipedia
Ongota language — Ongota iːfa ʕoŋɡota Spoken in Ethiopia Region Southern Omo Zone, Southern Region Native speakers 6 (2008) … Wikipedia
Afroasiatic Urheimat — The term Afroasiatic Urheimat refers to the place where Proto Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.… … Wikipedia
Afro-Asiatic — noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa • Syn: ↑Afroasiatic, ↑Afroasiatic language, ↑Afrasian, ↑Afrasian language, ↑Hamito Semitic • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue … Useful english dictionary