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Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family widespread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia. The following language subfamilies are included:
- Berber languages
- Chadic languages
- Egyptian languages
- Semitic languages
- Cushitic languages
- Omotic languages
Older literature used the term Hamito-Semitic instead of Afro-Asiatic. All languages except the Semitic ones were lumped together as Hamitic.
Source: Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, African Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Chapter 4
See also: African Languages
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