English > Afrasian language: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa. |
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| Synonyms | Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic |
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| Narrower | Berber | A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt |
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| Chad, Chadic, Chadic language | A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa |
| Cushitic | A group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions |
| Egyptian | The ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs |
| Hamitic, Hamitic language | A group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic |
| Omotic | A group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia |
| Semitic | A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family |
| Broader | natural language, tongue | A human written or spoken language used by a community |
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| Spanish | lengua afro-asiática, lengua camito-semítica |
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