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Chad, Chadic, Chadic language
a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
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Semitic
a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
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Hamitic, Hamitic language
a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
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Egyptian
the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC
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Berber
a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
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Cushitic
a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
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Omotic
a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages
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West Chadic
a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member
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Biu-Mandara
a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad
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East Chadic
a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad
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Masa
an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages
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Akkadian
an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
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Amharic, Ethiopian language
the dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a Semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara have been in close contact
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Arabic, Arabic language
the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
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Aramaic
a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
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Maltese, Maltese language, Malti
the national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French
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Canaanitic, Canaanitic language
a group of Semitic languages
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Coptic
the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet
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Tuareg
the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg
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Somali
the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali
