Afroasiatic

adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages.
Noun
  1. 1
    a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Afro- + Asiatic.

Etymology 2

From Afro- + Asiatic.

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