Proto afroasiatic is the reconstructed ancestor of Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic languages.
Consonants
|
Labial |
Dental |
Alveolar |
Lateral |
Palatal |
Velar |
Labiovelar |
Liquid |
Laryngeal
|
Nasal
|
m |
n |
|
|
ɲ |
ŋ |
ŋʷ |
|
|
Voiceless plosive
|
p |
t |
s |
ɬ |
c |
k |
kʷ |
|
ʔ
|
Voiced plosive
|
b |
d |
z |
dl |
j |
g |
gʷ |
|
|
Emphatic plosive
|
p' |
t' |
s' |
tl' |
c' |
k' |
kʷ' |
|
|
Voiceless fricative
|
f |
ts |
|
|
š |
x |
xʷ |
|
h, ḥ
|
Voiced fricative
|
w |
dz |
|
|
y |
ɣ |
ɣʷ |
l, r
|
ʕ
|
Vowels
Short |
Long
|
a, e, i, o, u |
aa, ee, ii, oo, uu
|
Tones
Falling |
Rising |
Level
|
è |
é |
ē
|
It is accepted that proto-Afroasiatic had a complex inflectional system. However, no consensus exists as of yet as to how it might have looked like.
For this reason, words without their inflection are to be considered roots.