English version of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afroasiatic_german.svg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Afroasiatic german.svg">Afroasiatic german.svg</a>.  Map showing the distribution of five of the six major subfamilies belonging to the Afroasiatic (Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic) language family (the sixth, ancient Egyptian, is extinct except for liturgical use of Coptic). Data according to: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=ET">[1]</a> * Schuh, Russell (2003) 'Chadic overview', in M. Lionel Bender, Gabor Takacs, and David L. Appleyard (eds.), <i>Selected Comparative-Historical Afrasian Linguistic Studies in Memory of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_M._Diakonoff" class="extiw" title="w:Igor M. Diakonoff">Igor M. Diakonoff</a></i>,  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lincom.eu/">LINCOM Europa</a>, 55–60.  *Bernd Heine, Thilo C. Schadeberg und Ekkehard Wolff (eds.), <i>Die Sprachen Afrikas.</i> Buske, Hamburg 1981, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-87118-496-9" title="Special:BookSources/3-87118-496-9">ISBN 3-87118-496-9</a>
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