Note 16: The estimate for Afrasan (Afroasiatic) is 371; Nilo-Saharan, 196; and Khoisan, 35.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: WORDGUMBO.] Reference

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 mutilating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circumcision and disease prevention] Reference

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 Martin Bernal's "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization" (1989).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hazards of Telling the Truth] Reference

So just as in an English etym dict you get first other Germanic forms, then related forms from other IE branches and a reconstructed PIE root, in an Arabic one you'd get Ethiopian and Arabian forms, then other Semitic forms, and finally the more distant Afroasiatic forms and a reconstruction if such is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY.] Reference

It is not Afrikans who are guilty of 'blatant expropriation of Egyptian history and culture,' but rather the expansive imperialist project of Euro-America for the last 250 years, as amply demonstrated by Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Egyptian Afrikans, Part Two: The Coyote Kings Debate] Reference

Of the estimated 2,035 languages spoken on the continent of Africa, a recent study estimated the Niger-Congo family comprises 1,436 languages, with a conservative estimate of 360 million speakers. 16 Like other language families indigenous to the continent — Afrasan (Afroasiatic), Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan — the Niger-Congo language family long, long ago comprised communities of speakers who spoke a common ancestral language, proto-Niger-Congo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

A few are well-known Afroasiatic cognates, and scattered among them may be other valid cognates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jabal al-Lughat] Reference

Hebrew can be narrowed down even further to a particular branch of the Afroasiatic family, the Semitic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Blogs Feed] Reference

Hebrew on the other hand is part of the Afroasiatic family of languages that as their name implies are native to Africa and Asia, to Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia more specifically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Blogs Feed] Reference

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume II, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence by Martin Bernal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Turned Upside Down] Reference

(and, I might add, with the other Afroasiatic languages), but by total coincidence (certainly not genetic relationship and indeed not borrowing or diffusion).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3] Reference

Athena: The Afroasiatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliography] Reference

Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian) Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference