Afroasiatic

Afroasiatic is a linguistic superfamily in with 225 languages spoken by 220 million people. It includes six language families: SEMITIC, BERBER, CUSHITIC, EGYPTIAN, CHADIC, OMOTIC. Leiden University offers a wide spectre of Afroasiatic languages:

COURSES IN AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES

-Comparative Afroasiatic (Jongeling, Stroomer)

1. SEMITIC LANGUAGES:
-Comparative Semitic (Jongeling)

SOUTH SEMITIC
Arabic
-Modern Standard Arabic (Kruk, Stoetzer, Jansen, Jaber, Kon, Buskens)
-Egyptian (Jaber, Kon)
-Palestinian (Jaber)
-Moroccan (Kossmann, Lafkioui, Stroomer)

South Semitic epigraphy
-Sabaean (Stroomer)
-Ethiopic (Stroomer)

South Semitic languages of Yemen and Oman
-Mehri (Stroomer)
-Harsusi (Stroomer)

Ethiopian Semitic
-Classical Eth. (Stroomer)
-Amharic (Amha, Stroomer)

WEST SEMITIC
-Hebrew (Muraoka, van der Heijden, Folmer, Baasten, Jongeling, Neudecker)
-Syriac (Kruisheer, ter Haar Romeny, van Ginkel)
-Aramaic (Folmer)
-Neo-Aramaic (Murre-van den Berg)
-Phoenician (Jongeling)
-Punic (Jongeling)
-Ugaritic (van Soldt)

EAST SEMITIC
-Akkadian /Assyr-Bab (van Soldt, Derksen, Krispijn, Kouwenberg)

2. BERBER LANGUAGES
-Rif B. (Lafkioui, Kossmann, Stroomer)
-Tashelhiyt B (Stroomer)
-Tuareg B. (Kossmann, Stroomer)

3. CUSHITIC LANGUAGES
-Oromo (Stroomer)
-Somali (Mous)
-Iraqw (Mous)

4. EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE
-Egyptian (Borghouts, Haring, Reintges)
-Coptic (van Vliet)

5. CHADIC LANGUAGES
-Hausa (Kossmann)

6. OMOTIC LANGUAGES
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These courses allow for interesting combinations:

SEMITIC in combination with SEMITIC
Arabic in combination with Hebrew
Arabic (Palestinian) in combination with Modern Hebrew
Arabic in combination with Syriac
Arabic in combination with Neo-Aramaic
Arabic in combination with South Arabian Epigraphy
Arabic in combination with Mehri
Arabic in combination with Classical Ethiopic
Arabic in combination with Amharic
Hebrew in combination with Akkadian
Hebrew in combination with Akkadian in combination with Ugaritic

SEMITIC in combination with BERBER
Arabic (Moroccan) in combination with Berber
Arabic (Egyptian) in combination with Berber (Siwi)
Punic in combination with Berber (epigraphy Africa Romana)
Hebrew in combination with Berber (Moroccan Berber Jews)

SEMITIC in combination with CUSHITIC
Arabic in combination with Somali (Islam East-Africa)
Arabic in combination with Oromo (Islam East-Africa)

SEMITIC in combination with EGYPTOLOGY
Arabic (Egyptian) in combination with Egyptology
Arabic in combination with Coptic

SEMITIC in combination with CHADIC
Arabic in combination with Hausa (Islam West-Africa)

BERBER in combination with CHADIC
Tuareg in combination with Hausa

etc.