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nouna large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africatype of:
Definition that contains afroasiatic
- chad a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
- chadic language a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
- chadic a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
- hausa the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language
- haussa the chief member of the Chadic family of Afroasiatic languages; widely used as a trading language