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Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers in a sentence
1. The term Afroasiatic Urheimat (Urheimat meaning "original homeland" in German) refers to the hypothetical place where Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.
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- a single linguistic community
- this original language
- distinct languages
- Their distribution
- the Sahara pump
- no agreement
- this language family
- The main theories
- Widespread (though not universal) features
- the Afroasiatic languages
- the most remarkable shared features
- the prefixing verb conjugation
- this section
- a distinctive pattern
- /ʔ t n y/
- third-singular masculine /y-/
- tonal languages
- the Omotic and Chadic branches
- certain Cushitic languages
- The Semitic
- Egyptian branches
- Afroasiatic cognates
- ten pronouns
- three nouns
- three verbs
- two etymological dictionaries
- The two dictionaries
- almost everything
- The following table
- the thirty roots
- a fragile consensus
- present research
- the main sources
- Afroasiatic etymologies
- also UK
- [ənˈdorə
- officially the Principality
- (Catalan
- Principat d'Andorra
- a sovereign landlocked microstate