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

Examples of Afro-Asiatic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s the Afro-Asiatic family of languages spoken in northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Western Asia, including Egyptian and Somali, plus Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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. — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Afro-Asiatic

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