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Afroasiatic (alternatively Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is one of the largest...

Afroasiatic (alternatively Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is one of the largest language families of the world, and includes about 375 living languages. Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel. More than 300 million people speak an Afroasiatic language. The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic (including all its colloquial varieties), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa. Berber languages are spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and across the rest of North Africa and the Sahara Desert by about 25 to 35 million people. Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia; and Hausa, which serves as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers. In addition to languages spoken today, Afroasiatic includes several ancient languages, such as Ancient Egyptian, Akkadian, and Biblical Hebrew. The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as "Hamito-Semitic", a term