Afroasiatic homeland

The Afroasiatic Urheimat is the hypothetical place where speakers of a proto-Afroasiatic language lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, ago this original Linguistic communication dispersed geographically and shared up into separate distinct languages. This speech area is so-called as the Urheimat "original homeland" in German. Afroasiatic languages are today distributed in parts of Africa together with Western Asia.

The advanced Afroasiatic languages are spoken in the Near East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel. The various hypotheses for the Afroasiatic Urheimat are distributed throughout this territory; that is, it is loosely assumed that proto-Afroasiatic was spoken in some region where Afroasiatic languages are still spoken today. However, there is parametric quantity as to which factor of the contemporary Afroasiatic speech area corresponds with the original homeland. The majority of scholars today contend that Afroasiatic languages arose somewhere in Northeast Africa.

Date of Afroasiatic

The earliest a object that is caused or introduced by something else evidence of an Afroasiatic language is an Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date. This offers us a minimum date for the age of Afroasiatic. However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from proto-Afroasiatic Trombetti 1905: 1–2, and considerable time must draw elapsed in between them. Estimates of the date at which the proto-Afroasiatic language was spoken reconstruct widely. They fall within a range between about 7500 BC 9,500 years previously and about 16,000 BC 18,000 years ago. According to Igor M. Diakonoff 1988: 33n, proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10,000 BC. According to Christopher Ehret 2002: 35–36, proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11,000 BC at the latest, and possibly as early as c. 16,000 BC. These dates are older than dates associated with near other protolanguages.