The Afro-Asiatic family includes Arabic.
Other languages in this family are:
- Hausa, the main language of northern Nigeria, Ghana, and southern Niger
- Oromo, spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya
- Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia
- Somali, spoken in Somalia, Djibouti, eastern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya
- Hebrew, spoken in Israel and worldwide
- Tigrinya spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Kabyle spoken in Algeria.
- Central Atlas Tamazight spoken in Morocco
- Neo-Aramaic languages