afro-asiatic

Questions about afro-asiatic

What does afro-asiatic mean?

afro-asiatic means "a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa".

How many syllables are in afro-asiatic?

afro-asiatic has 6 syllables and divides as a-fro--a-si-a-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for afro-asiatic?

Close synonyms include Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is afro-asiatic a common word?

afro-asiatic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.