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1. Afroasiatic languages have over 495 million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family (after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan and Niger–Congo).
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- The phylum
- six branches
- the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language
- dialect continuum
- A de facto group
- distinct language varieties
- the Semitic branch
- around 313 million native speakers
- several important ancient languages
- a distinct branch
- The original homeland
- the Afroasiatic family
- the parent language
- (i.e. Proto-Afroasiatic
- historical linguists
- Proposed locations
- the Book of Genesis
- Shem
- the 1860s
- Friedrich Müller
- Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft
- 1876
- Maurice Delafosse
- Joseph Greenberg
- Greenberg
- Erythraean
- Tucker
- Lisramic
- Hodge
- "Hamito-Semitic"
- Igor Diakonoff
- Afroasiatic language
- over 300 million
- Tiaret
- Theodor Benfey
- Ethiopic
- T.N. Newman
- Hausa
- "Outline of Linguistics"
- Karl Richard Lepsius