Afro-Asiatic
adjective
Af·ro-Asi·at·ic
ˌa-frō-ˌā-zhē-ˈa-tik 
-zē-,
also -shē-
: of, relating to, or being a family of languages widely distributed over southwestern Asia and Africa including the Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic subfamilies
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The people who spoke ancestral Afro-Asiatic languages were certainly involved in the introduction of Middle Eastern crops into North Africa and may have been responsible for the domestication of crops native to Ethiopia.
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Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
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