afroasiatic

Other forms of afroasiatic

plural

afroasiatics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about afroasiatic

What does afroasiatic mean?

afroasiatic means "a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa".

How many syllables are in afroasiatic?

afroasiatic has 6 syllables: a-fro-a-si-a-tic. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for afroasiatic?

Close synonyms include Afro-Asiatic, 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 afroasiatic a common word?

afroasiatic 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.