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Afro-Asiatic Sub Families

(375 Languages)



The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). Other names sometimes given to this family include "Afrasian", "Hamito-Semitic" (deprecated), "Lisramic" (Hodge 1972), "Erythraean" (Tucker 1966).

Eastern

Awjila-Sokna

Awjilah, Sawknah

Siwa

Siwa

Guanche

Guanche

Northern

- Atlas

Judeo-Berber, Tachelhit,Tamazight, Central Atlas

- Chenoua

- Kabyle

- Zenati:

East

Ghadamès, Nafusi, Sened

Ghomara

Ghomara

Mzab-Wargla

Tagargrent, Temacine Tamazight, Taznatit, Tumzabt

Riff

Senhaja de Srair, Tarifit

Shawiya

Tachawit

Tidikelt

Tidikelt Tamazight

Tamasheg

Northern

Tamahaq, Tahaggart

Southern

Tamasheq, Tayart Tamajeq, Tawallammat Tamajaq

Zenaga

Biu-Mandara

East

Masa

Herdé, Pévé, Masana, Marba, Musey, Ngete, Mesme, Zumaya.

West

Central (5)

Eastern

Xamtanga

Northern

Bilen

Southern

Awngi, Kunfal

Western

Qimant

East (34)

Boon

Dullay

Bussa, Gawwada, Tsamai

Highland

Alaba, Burji, Gedeo, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Libido, Sidamo

Konso-Gidole

Dirasha, Komso

Oromo

Oromo Borana-Arsi-Guji, Oromo West Central, Garreh-Ajuran, Oromo Eastern, Orma, Sanye

Rendille-Boni

Boni, Rendille

Saho-Afar

Afar, Saho

Somali

Dabarre, Garre, Jiiddu, Somali, Tunni, Maay

Western Omo-Tana

Arbore, Baiso, Daasanach, El Molo

Yaaku

North (1)

Bedawi

South (7)

Aasáx, Burunge, Dahalo, Gorowa, Iraqw, Alagwa, Kw'adza

Coptic

North (24)

- Dizoid

Dizi, Nayi, Sheko

- Gonga-Gimojan

Gimojan

Janjero, Ometo-Gimira, Chara, Gimira, Ometo, Dorze, Gamo-Gofa-Dawro, Melo, Oyda, Wolaytta, Kachama-Ganjule, Koorete, Zayse-Zergulla, Male, Basketo

Gonga

Anfillo, Boro, Kafa, Shekkacho

- Mao

East

Bambassi

West

Ganza, Hozo, Seze

South (4)

Aari, Hamer-Banna, Dime, Karo

Central (57)

- Aramaic

Eastern

- Central: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Lishanid Noshan, Bohtan Neo-Aramaic, Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Hértevin, Hulaulá, Koy Sanjaq Surat, Lishana Deni, Senaya, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Lishán Didán, Mlahsö, Turoyo,
- Mandaic: Mandaic, Classical Mandaic,
- Syriac.

Western

Samaritan Aramaic, Western Neo-Aramaic

- South

Arabic

Algerian Saharan Spoken Arabic, Algerian Spoken Arabic, Baharna Spoken Arabic, Chadian Spoken Arabic, Cypriot Spoken Arabic, Dhofari Spoken Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken Arabic, Egyptian Spoken Arabic, Gulf Spoken Arabic, Hadrami Spoken Arabic, Hijazi Spoken Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni Arabic, Libyan Spoken Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken Arabic, Moroccan Spoken Arabic, Najdi Spoken Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken Arabic, Omani Spoken Arabic, Sa`idi Spoken Arabic, Sanaani Spoken Arabic, Shihhi Spoken Arabic, South Levantine Spoken Arabic, Standard Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni Spoken Arabic, Tajiki Spoken Arabic, Tunisian Spoken Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken Arabic, Hassaniyya, Maltese.

Canaanite

Hebrew, Ancient Hebrew, Samaritan

South (20)

- Ethiopian

North

Geez, Tigré, Tigrigna

South

- Outer: Gafat, Kistane, Mesqan, Mesmes, Sebat Bet Gurage,
- Transversal: Argobba, Amharic, Harari, Silt'e, Zay

- South Arabian

Bathari, Mehri, Hobyót, Harsusi, Shehri, Soqotri.


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