Basa Afro-Asiatik iku rumpun basa kanggo anggota mèh 240 basa lan 285 yuta penutur sing sumebar ing laladan Afrika Lor, Afrika Wétan, Sahel, lan Asia Kidul-Kulon. Jeneng liya tumrap rumpun basa iki ya iku Afrasia, Hamito-Semitik (ora dianggo manèh), Lisramic (Hodge 1972), Erythraean (Tucker 1966). Sajeroning rumpun basa iki kalebu basa-basa tinulis klasik sing duwé sajarah dawa, malah paling dawa,kaya déné basa Arab, basa Ibrani, basa Amharik, lan basa Koptik. Basa Arab duwé prabawa kuwat marang basa Melayu/basa Indonesia amarga panggunaan minangka basa kitab suci agama Islam. Siji-sijiné basa Afroasiatik sing didadèkaké basa resmi ing Uni Éropah ya iku basa Malta.

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Peta sing nuduhaké distribusi basa-basa Afro-Asiatik

Subrumpun basa ini ya iku:

  • Basa-basa Berber
  • Basa-basa Chadik
  • Basa-basa Egiptik/Koptik
  • Basa-basa Semitik
  • Basa-basa Kushitik
  • Basa Beja (subklasifikasi kontroversial; kanthi umum kalebu minangka basa Kushitik)
  • Basa-basa Omotik (kontroversial; kadhangkala dianggep Afroasiatik jaba)

Bibliografi etimologi

Sawetara sumber utama etimologi Afro-Asia kalebu:

  • Marcel Cohen, Essai comparatif sur la vocabulaire et la phonétique du chamito-sémitique, Champion, Paris 1947.
  • Igor M. Diakonoff et al., "Historical-Comparative Vocabulary of Afrasian", St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies No. 2-6, 1993-7.
  • Christopher Ehret. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics 126), California, Berkeley 1996.
  • Vladimir E. Orel dan Olga V. Stolbova, Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction, Brill, Leiden 1995

Sumber

Uga delengen

  • Basa-basa Afrika

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