Afro-Asiaticadj.n.

1865 Cruikshank's Comic Almanack at November The Afro-Asiatic, American, and British Australian Trading Company.

1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) II. lxi. 1348 The Afro-Asiatic genus Gazella..occurs in the Pliocene of Europe, Africa, and India.

1922 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 459/1 No trace whatever of human remains has yet been found in the central Afro-Asiatic area, the real cradle of the family.

1984 M. Oduyoye (title) The sons of the gods and the daughters of men: an Afro-Asiatic interpretation of Genesis 1-11.

2005 J. D. Hughes Mediterranean i. 12 Larger predators..included lynxes, hyenas, wolves, jackals, and foxes, all present on the European side of the sea as well as the Afro-Asiatic.

1922 New Internat. Year Bk. 46/2 The aboriginal languages are divided into three basic groups—the Malayo-African, composed of Malagasy alone; the Afro-Asiatic, including the Semitic, Hamito-Berber, and Hamito-Kushitic; and the Negro-African.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 589/2 Also known as the Semito-Hamitic, Erythraean, Afro-Asiatic, and Afrasian language group, it [sc. Hamito-Semitic] is the main language family of northern Africa.

1985 G. 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.

2007 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 345. 2007/1 A comparative study of the grammar of Cushitic, Semitic, and Egyptian branches of Afroasiatic languages will illuminate the prehistory of the Red Sea basin.

1897 Educ. Outlook 50 385 The staggering blow dealt by the Afro-Asiatic at his stubborn Italian foe.

1975 R. A. Oliver Afr. in Iron Age i. 7 The main Stone Age populations of all this region, stretching from the Red Sea far down into East Africa, had been Afro-Asiatics speaking languages of the southernmost Afro-Asiatic sub-family called Cushitic.

1998 A. Attah-Poku Afr. Ethnicity ii. 29 Some of the Afro-Asiatics have witnessed some biological and cultural blending, but a large degree of traditional African identity is still present among them.

2003 T. Brown What Mama taught Me (2004) iii. 69 About 50000 years before wandering into Europe, the researchers maintain, Africans wandered into northeast Africa and Asia as the forebears of the Afro-Asiatics.

1950 J. 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.

1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 203 Recently a long-recognized cleavage between two groups of Cushitic languages..has..[required] the postulation of a further sub-family of Afro-Asiatic—the Omotic sub-family.

1984 Trans. 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).

1998 Word 49 113 The Nostratic macro-family, which also includes Afroasiatic, Kartvelian, Dravidian and possibly Sumerian.

2008 L. Grenoble in P. Austin One Thousand Lang. x. 222 Approximately 800 languages are spoken in Central Africa, representing three major language families: Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan.