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Afrasian
Afrasian meaning
Of or relating to both Africa and Asia. | Synonym of Afroasiatic (“of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages”).
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Example sentences (2)
Last Sunday ten councillors from Burnley and another from Lancashire country council quit the party, including council leader Afrasian Anwar.
In lieu of "Hamito-Semitic", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term "Afrasian", meaning "half African, half Asiatic", in reference to the geographic distribution of the family's constituent languages.