List of Afro-Asiatic languages

List of Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages include some 372 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by people of Africa and western Asia. Each subfamily in this list contains many subgroups and individual languages.

*Berber languages
*Chadic languages
*Cushitic languages
*Omotic languages
*Semitic languages

Individual

*Coptic language

Unclassified

The following languages have not been sorted into subgroups within the Afro-Asiatic language family.

*Birale language

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=2 Afro-Asiatic language tree]


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