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1. Little agreement exists on the subgrouping of the five or six branches of Afroasiatic: Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic.
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- the Omotic branch
- the four major language families
- whose speech area
- Afroasiatic's Semitic branch
- no generally accepted relations
- any other language family
- several proposals
- one or more other language families
- The earliest written evidence
- an Afroasiatic language
- an Ancient Egyptian inscription
- c. 3400 BC
- (Naqada II
- Egyptian hieroglyphs date
- c. 4000 BC
- an earlier possible dating
- a minimum date
- Proto-Afroasiatic (Trombetti
- considerable time
- the date
- the Proto-Afroasiatic language
- approximately 7,500 BC
- approximately 16,000 BC
- c. 10,000 BC
- c. 11,000 BC
- c. 16,000 BC
- These dates
- other proto-languages
- (Urheimat
- "original homeland
- the hypothetical place
- Proto-Afroasiatic language speakers
- a single linguistic community
- this original language
- distinct languages
- Their distribution
- the Sahara pump
- no agreement
- this language family
- The main theories