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===Africa and Middle East===
;Afroasiatic
:There is no consensus on the location of the [[Afroasiatic homeland]], though based on current evidence somewhere in the eastern [[Sahara]] or adjacent regions is considered most likely.<ref name="Porkhomovsky 2020">{{cite book |last1=Porkhomovsky |first1=Victor |editor1-last=Vossen |editor1-first=Rainer |editor2-last=Dimmendaal |editor2-first=Gerrit J. |title=The Oxford Handbook of African Languages |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-960989-5 |pages=269–274 |chapter=Afro-Asiatic Overview}} p. 273.</ref> Other proposed and possible locations are the [[Levant]],<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444351071 |title=The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration |date=2013-02-04 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-4443-3489-0 |editor-last=Ness |editor-first=Immanuel |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm815}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Blažek |first=Václav |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm815 |title=15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history |date=2013-02-04 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-4443-3489-0 |editor-last= |editor-first= |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm815}}</ref> and areas of [[Northeast Africa]], with this area generally being considered more probable because of least movements needed and language diversity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Güldemann |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.co.tz/books/about/The_Languages_and_Linguistics_of_Africa.html?id=kZxDrgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |title=The Languages and Linguistics of Africa |date=2018 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3-11-042606-9 |pages=311 |language=en}}</ref> Proto-Afroasiatic is estimated to have begun to break up in the 8th millennium BCE.<ref name="Porkhomovsky 2020" /> [[Proto-Semitic]] is thought to have been spoken in the [[Near East]] between 4400 and 7400 BCE, with [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] representing its earliest known branch.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kitchen |first1=Andrew |last2=Ehret |first2=Christopher |last3=Assefa |first3=Shiferaw |last4=Mulligan |first4=Connie J. |title=Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=7 August 2009 |volume=276 |issue=1668 |pages=2703–2710 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2009.0408 |pmid=19403539 |pmc=2839953 }}</ref>
;Niger–Congo
:The validity of the [[Niger–Congo languages]] has become controversial. It probably originated in [[West Africa]] — where the greatest diversity is found — soon after the start of the [[Holocene]]. Its expansion may have been associated with the expansion of [[Sahel]] agriculture in the [[African Neolithic]] period, following the [[African humid period#End|desiccation of the Sahara in c. 3500 BCE]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Manning |first1=Katie |last2=Timpson |first2=Adrian |title=The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |date=October 2014 |volume=101 |pages=28–35 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.003 |bibcode=2014QSRv..101...28M |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kopytoff |first1=Igor |title=The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies |date=1989 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-20539-1 }} (cited after [http://amightytree.org/niger-congo-languages-and-history/ Igbo Language Roots and (Pre)-History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717224506/http://amightytree.org/niger-congo-languages-and-history/ |date=2019-07-17 }}, ''A Mighty Tree'', 2011).</ref>
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