Afro-Asiatic Language Families

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Where is the Semitic language sub-group mainly spoken?

Horn of Africa

Which is the only country where the Omotic sub-family is spoken?

Ethiopia

Where does the Cushitic branch extend to geographically?

Northern Africa

Which super-family has the most significant number of speakers based on rough estimates?

Niger-Congo

Where do Bantu speakers live predominantly?

Sub-Saharan Africa

______ languages belong to the Bantu language group

Swahili

Kordofanian languages are spoken in a small area in the ______ hills

Nuba

Nilo-Saharan Super-Family is divided into six subgroups: Chari-Nile, Songhay, Saharan, Meban, Koman, and ______

Fur

Khoisan Super-Family has two subgroups: the Khoikhoi and the ______

San

The speakers of Khoisan languages live in and around the Kalahari Desert of northern South Africa, Southwestern Botswana, and ______

Namibia

Explore the diverse speakers of the Afro-Asiatic language super-family and its six sub-groups including Berber, Chadic, Coptic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Semitic. Learn about the distribution of these languages across northern Africa, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, and Lake Chad.

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