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Definition of Afro-asiatic
1. Noun. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue
Specialized synonyms: Chad, Chadic, Chadic Language, Semitic, Hamitic, Hamitic Language, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic
Definition of Afro-asiatic
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Omotic, Cushitic, and Chadic languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afro-asiatic
Literary usage of Afro-asiatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Afrika und Übersee by Carl Meinhof, Seminar für Afrikanische Sprachen, Universität Hamburg (1845)
"Wolff, E., 1979: Grammatical categories of verb stems and the marking of mood,
aktionsart and aspect in Chadic; in: Afro- asiatic Linguistics 6,5: 1-48. ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"The arid climate of the Afro-Asiatic connection and the heavily forested path of
migration to the East Indies would seem to be the features that determined ..."
3. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"He glories in the pointless and wanton barbarity of the destruction of Carthage
in the Third Punic War as saving Europe from the Afro-Asiatic peril—pure ..."
4. Russian Orthodox Church Of Alaska And The Aleutian Islands And Its Relation by Vyacheslav Ivanov (1998)
"189); "star," Aleut st'aq "star"; Indo-European *'Haster-•/*ster- with the possible
connection to the Afro-Asiatic name of a "morning star, Venus= Astarte, ..."
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