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1. Otherwise: Afroasiatic is one of the four major language families spoken in Africa identified by Joseph Greenberg in his book The Languages of Africa (1963).
2. These represent three of the four major language families in Africa;
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- 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
- Widespread (though not universal) features
- the Afroasiatic languages