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gptkbp:instanceOf
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language family
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Afro-Asiatic_languages
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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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widely accepted
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gptkbp:color
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gptkb:Afro-Asiatic
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gptkbp:date
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possibly 10,000 years ago
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gptkbp:extinctBranches
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gptkb:Egyptian
possibly Omotic (debated)
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gptkbp:firstDescribed
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gptkb:Friedrich_Müller
1876
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gptkbp:glottologCode
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afro1255
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Afroasiatic languages
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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afa
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gptkbp:language
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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:Hebrew
gptkb:Phoenician
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Egyptian
gptkb:Oromo
gptkb:Berber_languages
Akkadian
Coptic
Hausa
Somali
Tigrinya
Carthaginian
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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:parent
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none
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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: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:Arab
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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