VERB + AFRO-ASIATIC
belonging, branch, part
AFRO-ASIATIC + NOUN
family, language
name
Alternative spelling of Afroasiatic.
adj
noun — a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and
The Somali language is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, belonging specifically to the Cushitic branch.
Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, which also includes Arabic, Hebrew and Berber languages.
Arabic anciently supplanted Ancient Egyptian, both languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic language family.