Afro-Asiatic

adjective

Af·ro-Asi·at·ic ˌa-frō-ˌā-zhē-ˈa-tik

-zē-,

also -shē-

: of, relating to, or being a family of languages widely distributed over southwestern Asia and Africa including the Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic subfamilies

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The people who spoke ancestral Afro-Asiatic languages were certainly involved in the introduction of Middle Eastern crops into North Africa and may have been responsible for the domestication of crops native to Ethiopia. —