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n. - A large family of related languages spoken both on the largest and second largest continents.

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  • Note 16: The estimate for Afrasan (Afroasiatic) is 371; Nilo-Saharan, 196; and Khoisan, 35.
  • There are word lists for the major Indo-European languages as well as a number of other families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Niger-Kordofanian, and so on.
  • In this sense it is not essentially different from the female circumcission/castration practices common in about the same Afroasiatic area, even if generally less...
  • This "celebration" marked the high-water mark of Afrocentrism, a movement that had begun in the academy in the 1980s and gained astonishing momentum with the publication of...
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