Afro-Asiatic languages, also called Afrasian languages, formerly Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean languages, languages of common origin found in the northern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some islands and adjacent areas in Western Asia.
At the other extreme, and more typically, nationalist claims are focused upon the non-voluntary community of common origin, language, tradition and culture: the classic ethno-nation is a community of origin and culture, including prominently a language and customs.
If it is found that certain sequences of letters planet, tree, woman are used with identical meanings in a number of different books, one can be sure that the languages used in those books are of common origin.
Advancing a theory of linguistic differentiation, he suggested that languages that developed farther away from a centre of common origin are less disturbed by changes initiated at the point of origin and may retain archaic characteristics in common.
These results suggest that in spite of obvious sociocultural differences among groups, marked by the supposedly strict admixture barriers, their Y chromosome gene pool remains largely shared, because of common origin or common history of genetic admixture without language shift.
Hirayama, K. Groups of asteroids probably of common origin.
The term 'nest of origin' tests for effects of common origin prior to the manipulation.
The existence of similar structures in such otherwise disparate languages, Miyagawa asserts, provides strong evidence that all human languages have a common origin.
There was no formal political structure connecting Bella Coola communities to one another but rather a strong feeling of shared identity based on common language, common origin, and cultural pride.
Only later might the truth dawn - that it is the shared language, not some common origin, that binds them.
It was popular mainly among intellectuals and developed from a now largely discarded theory of the common origin of Turkish, Mongol, Tungus, Finnish, Hungarian, and other languages (the Ural-Altaic languages).
