The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 250 million people widespread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia. The following language subfamilies are included:
- Berber languages
- Chadic languages
- Egyptian languages
- Semitic languages
- Cushitic languages
- Beja languages
- Omotic languages
Sources:
- Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, African Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2000 - Chapter 4
- http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=2