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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa AfroasiaticLanguageFamily the Afro-Asiatic language family Afro-Asiatic language the AfroAsiatic language family Afroasiatic languages Afro-Asiatic languages Afroasiatic language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages Languages spoken near Lake Chad, central Africa, and in West Africa ChadLanguageFamily the Chad language family HamiticLanguageFamily the Hamitic language family Currently, languages spoken throughout northern and mostly eastern Africa SemiticLanguageFamily Many languages, both ancient and modern, spoken in southwest Asia and northwest Africa the Semitic language family A language of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AfroasiaticLanguageFamily</a> spoken in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViJzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Somalia</a>. MaayLanguage Maay WolayttaLanguage A language of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AfroasiaticLanguageFamily</a> spoken in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGbZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ethiopia</a>. Wolaytta Language KambaataLanguage A language of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AfroasiaticLanguageFamily</a> spoken in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGbZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ethiopia</a>. Kambaata Language Hadiyya Language A language of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AfroasiaticLanguageFamily</a> spoken in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGbZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ethiopia</a>. HadiyyaLanguage Oromo Language OromoLanguage A language of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVifuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AfroasiaticLanguageFamily</a> spoken in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGbZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViFJZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Kenya</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViJzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Somalia</a>. AfroasiaticLanguageFamily group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa the Afro-Asiatic language family AfroasiaticLanguageFamily group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa the Afro-Asiatic language family AfroasiaticLanguageFamily group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa the Afro-Asiatic language family NaturalLanguage natural language A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5SKoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanLanguage</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV7TOhK5EduAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">InformalLanguage</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjzepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalLanguage</a> is a language that is used for human communication, and which has evolved naturally. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjzepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalLanguage</a> is thus disjoint with <font color="#ff0000">#$ArtificialLanguage</font>. Instances include dead languages such as Ancient Greek and Latin; but concocted languages such as Esperanto are not included. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString AfroasiaticLanguageFamily group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa the Afro-Asiatic language family type of language family Related groups of languages. LanguageFamilyType AfroasiaticLanguageFamily group of languages indigenous to the Near East and northeast Africa the Afro-Asiatic language family