Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...as in Arabic kitab, "book," and kutub, "books." Two genders, masculine and feminine, are found in Semitic languages...Tarifit), Siwi, Zenaga, and others. Grammatically, gender and number are indicated by prefixes and suffixes. The vocabulary...Kotoko, Mandara, and other Biu-Mandara languages. The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems...