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On the Web
- Afro-Asiatic Languages - Wikipedia article, with a useful map.
- Afro-Asiatic Index Project - Etymological database of Afro-Asiatic languages, outgrowth of the Cushitic Lexicon Project. History and report downloads.
- The Afro-Asiatic Languages - Classification and Reference List - A scholarly classification of the language family, by Roger Blench.
- Teach Yourself Hausa - Introduction to the Hausa language, including the basics of its phonetics and grammar, and some sample sentences illustrating everyday conversation in the language.
- The Hausa Language - by Paul Newman - Write-up on a reference grammar of the Hausa language, by one of the top authorities in the field, and published by Yale University Press.
- Ethnologue Report for Hausa - Information about where Hausa is spoken and the number of its speakers.
- Hausa Page - Guide to books, courses, software, and audiovisual resources for studying the Hausa language, from a distributor in Melbourne (Australia).
- UCLA Hausa Page - UCLA resource guide to the Hausa language and the culture of Hause speakers. Includes an online Hausa grammar.
- CAA Torah Trope - Congregation Agudas Achim, Austin, TX, with Hazzan Neil Blumofe offer downloadable Torah trope recordings for Shabbat, with sheet music. For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, full recordings: files are separate for Festivals on Shabbat or weekdays, and for each Aliyah. Megillat Esther recordings are usually 3-4 verses each.
- CBI Trope Page - Congregation B'nai Israel, Millburn, NJ, Adult Education offers MP3 downloads for Torah, Haftarah, Megillat Esther and Eicha (Chapter 3 separately), plus Noteworthy (nwc) and Midi (mid) downloads and sheet music for Esther and Eicha trope.
Wikipedia Articles
- Proto-Afro-Asiatic - Proto-Afro-Asiatic is the hypothetical proto-language from which modern Afro-Asiatic languages are descended.
- Afro-Asiatic languages - The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family (Languages of Africa) with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). Other names sometimes given to this family ...
- List of Afro-Asiatic languages - The Afro-Asiatic languages include some 372 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by people of Africa and western Asia. Each subfamily in this list contains many subgroups and individual languages.
- Af-Maay - The Maay language, also known as Af Maay or Afmaay, is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family and is written using the Latin alphabet. It is spoken mostly in Somalia and adjacent parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Awngi language - The Awngi language is a Central Cushitic language spoken by the Awi people, living in Central Gojjam in northwestern Ethiopia. The language is classified as Southern Central Cushitic or Southern Agaw in the literature, and as such belongs to the Cushitic phylum of the Afro-Asiatic language familyhttp://www.