Asiatic Afro Natural Languages Linguistics

Asiatic

Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken by various communities from a large area in West Africa centered around Lake Chad (Chadic), all the way across North Africa (Berber) into Egypt (Egyptian), Ethiopia, and Somalia, and down the Great Rift Valley to the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (Cushitic / Omotic). The family crosses over into Western Asia (Semitic), and is also spoken in the Middle East through Palestine and Syria, down around the Arabian Peninsula into Yemen and Oman, and stretching into Iraq. Source

• - Class notes for a course on Semitic linguistics offered at the University of Western Australia, containing an overview of the language family, and detailed information on its writing systems, phonology and morphology, with particular attention to its verb
  
• - A journal for the study of the Northwest Semitic languages and literatures (published in Rolling Hills Estates, CA, USA).
  
• - Etymological database of Afroasiatic languages, outgrowth of the Cushitic Lexicon Project. History and report downloads.
  
• - A bibliography of Eastern Cushitic languages spoken south-central Ethiopia, compiled by Prof. Grover Hudson of Michigan State University. The principal languages of the group are Hadiyya, Kambaata, Sidaama, Gedeo (formerly termed Darasa), and Burji.
  
• - A scholarly classification of the language family, by Roger Blench.
  
  

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