| In the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Somali is an Eastern Cushitic language. |
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| Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa. |
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| Arabic is a branch of the Semitic languages, which in turn belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family together with Berber, Ancient Egyptian, Chadic, and Cushitic. |
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| Somali is one of the Cushitic languages, which form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. |
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| Lameen has an intriguing post questioning whether the Omotic languages of eastern Africa are part of the Afro-Asiatic family. |
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| The Tamazight language is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and has about 300 closely related local dialects. |
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| Tamashek is a division of Tuareg, the southern branch of Berber, which is part of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic family of languages. |
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