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Afro-Asiˈatic, a. (and n.)
[f. Afro- + Asiatic a.]
Of or pertaining to a family of languages found in northern Africa and western Asia, of which Arabic is the most widespread. See Hamito-Semitic a. and n. Also as n.
1950J. H. Greenberg in Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. Spring 57 The term Hamito-Semitic is so well-entrenched that it will no doubt continue to be used. I rather hesitantly suggest the name Afroasiatic for this family as the only one found both in Africa and in Asia. In this way Hamitic could be entirely eliminated from use even as a linguistic term. 1961Webster, Afro-Asiatic languages. 1974[see Semito-Hamitic a. and n.]. 1984Trans. Philol. Soc. 202 The Agaw languages, spoken in widely distributed pockets in the northern half of Ethiopia, belong to the Cushitic family within the wider grouping of Hamito-Semitic (or Afroasiatic). 1985G. T. Nurse et al. Peoples Southern Afr. xi. 283 The north-east Africans..and the Ethiopians.., all linguistically Afro-Asiatic, clearly distinguish themselves from the non-Caucasoid populations. |