Proto-Afro-Asiatic

GPTKB entity

Statements (58)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:language_family
gptkbp:ancestor gptkb:Afro-Asiatic_languages
gptkbp:field_of_study historical linguistics
gptkbp:has_a_phonological_system_that_includes consonants
vowels
gptkbp:has_a_proposed_homeland_in gptkb:the_Horn_of_Africa
the Sahara region
gptkbp:has_a_vocabulary_that_includes terms for animals
terms for body parts
terms for family relations
terms for natural elements
terms for numbers
gptkbp:has_influenced modern Afro-Asiatic languages
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Proto-Afro-Asiatic
gptkbp:is_believed_to a system of nouns
a system of pronouns
a system of verbs
a system of adjectives
a system of adverbs
a system of aspect
a system of augmentatives
a system of case
a system of compounding
a system of conjunctions
a system of definiteness
a system of derivation
a system of derivational morphology
a system of diminutives
a system of gender
a system of inflection
a system of inflectional morphology
a system of mood
a system of negation
a system of number
a system of plurality
a system of pragmatic structures
a system of prepositions
a system of reduplication
a system of semantic structures
a system of syntactic structures
a system of tense
a system of voice
gptkbp:is_believed_to_have_existed_around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago
gptkbp:is_characterized_by root-based morphology
vowel harmony
case markings
gender distinctions
gptkbp:is_reconstructed_through comparative linguistics
gptkbp:is_related_to other language families
gptkbp:language_support gptkb:Berber
gptkb:Egypt
Semitic
Cushitic
Chadic
Omotic
gptkbp:spoken_in Northeast Africa
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Afro-Asiatic
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5