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The Afro-Asiatic language family was formerly called Semitic-Hamitic, or, occasionally, Hamito-Semitic. It consists of languages spoken in north Africa and in the Near East, both in the past and presently. Afro-Asiatic is comprised of the Hamitic and Semitic branches. Hamitic consists of four sub-branches, all found in north Africa: Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic; it includes such languages as Coptic, Tamazight, Tuareg, and Hausa. The Semitic branch is divided into East and West sub-branches, and is found in both the Near East and in north Africa. East Semitic includes Akkadian and Chaldean. West Semitic is further divided into Northern and Southern West Semitic, and includes such languages as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Maltese, and Punic.

• Akkadian
  
• Amharic
  
• Arabic
  
• Aramaic
  
• Berber Languages
  
• Canaanite
  
• Chaldean
  
• Coptic
  
• Eblan
  
• Egyptian
  
• Geez
  
• Gurage
  
• Harari
  
• Hausa
  
• Hebrew
  
• Judeo-Arabic
  
• Moca
  
• Ngizim
  
• Phoenician
  
• Punic
  
• Samaritan
  
• Semitic Languages
  
• South Arabic
  
• Syriac
  
• Tamazight
  
• Tera
  
• Ugaritic
  
• Ya'udi
  

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