Afro-Asiatic languages

Afro-Asiatic is a large language family. Almost all of the languages in the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Africa and southwestern Asia. Most linguists believe that the origins of Afro-Asiatic lie somewhere in eastern Africa, particularly around the Horn area; this is because Afro-Asiatic languages are the most diverse there. The Afro-Asiatic language family is divided into several smaller groups such as:

• Semitic (only Afro-Asiatic subgroup with Asian members; also spoken in Ethiopia)

-Arabic

-Hebrew

• Egyptic

-Ancient Egyptian

• Chadic (spoken in North African countries such as Chad and Nigeria)

-Hausa

• Berber (spoken in northwest Africa)

-Tuareg

• Cushitic (spoken in northeast Africa)