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gptkbp:instanceOf
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language family
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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Afro-Asiatic language
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gptkbp:branch
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gptkb:Chadic
gptkb:Arab
gptkb:Egyptian
gptkb:Semitic
gptkb:Cushitic
gptkb:Omotic
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gptkbp:class
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one of the world's major language families
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gptkbp:date
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circa 10,000 years ago
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gptkbp:glottologCode
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afa
afro1255
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Afroasiatic language
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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afa
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Proto-Afroasiatic
over 300
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gptkbp:linguisticFeature
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emphatic consonants
gender distinction
root-and-pattern morphology
verb-subject-object order (in some branches)
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gptkbp:notableLanguage
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gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Biblical_Hebrew
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Phoenician
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Egyptian
gptkb:Oromo
gptkb:Tuareg
Akkadian
Hausa
Somali
Tigrinya
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gptkbp:notablePerson
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gptkb:Christopher_Ehret
gptkb:Joseph_Greenberg
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gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers
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over 500 million
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gptkbp:oldestWrittenLanguage
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gptkb:Egyptian
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gptkbp:region
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gptkb:North_Africa
gptkb:Horn_of_Africa
gptkb:Sahel
gptkb:West_Asia
East Africa
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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Nilo-Saharan languages (debated)
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gptkbp:studiedBy
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gptkb:linguist
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gptkbp:writingSystem
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gptkb:Tifinagh
gptkb:Latin_script
gptkb:Hebrew_script
gptkb:Ancient_Egyptian_scripts
gptkb:Ge'ez_script
gptkb:Coptic_script
Arabic script
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Afro-Asiatic_language
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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