Afroasiatic

large language family of Africa and West Asia
Language language_family Q25268
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Afroasiatic

Summary

Afroasiatic is a language family[1]. Afroasiatic ranks in the top 0.49% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,811 views/month, #5 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Afroasiatic's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Afroasiatic's instance of is recorded as macrofamily[4].
  • Africa is named after Afroasiatic[5].
  • Asia is named after Afroasiatic[6].
  • Afro-Asia is named after Afroasiatic[7].
  • Afroasiatic is a type of human language[8].
  • Afroasiatic's Commons category is recorded as Afro-Asiatic languages[9].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Berber[10].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Omotic[11].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Semitic[12].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Egyptian[13].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Cushitic[14].
  • Afroasiatic comprises Chadic[15].
  • 7000 BC marks the founding of Afroasiatic[16].
  • Afroasiatic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Afroasiatic languages[17].
  • Afroasiatic's described at URL is recorded as https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0048.xml[18].
  • Afroasiatic's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+400000000'}[19].
  • Afroasiatic's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[20].
  • Afroasiatic's topic has template is recorded as Template:Afroasiatic languages[21].
  • Afroasiatic's different from is recorded as Afroasiatic peoples[22].
  • Afroasiatic's different from is recorded as Afroasiatism[23].
  • Afroasiatic's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AFA[24].
  • Afroasiatic's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133074870[25].
  • Afroasiatic's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

Why It Matters

Afroasiatic ranks in the top 0.49% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,811 views/month, #5 of 1,012).[2] Afroasiatic has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Afroasiatic is known by 139 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . languagesgulper.com. languagesgulper.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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