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Afroasiatic languages, a Rare card
The Afroasiatic languages are a language family of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Afroasiatic languages quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Afroasiatic languages card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Most ______ divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic.
Answer
linguists. Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic. From the Afroasiatic languages article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 97 · Afroasiatic languages 87 · Arabian Peninsula 82 · Atropa bella-donna 78 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo.
- Most linguists divide the family into six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic.
- The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Afroasiatic languages article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Afroasiatic languages (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Noahedits, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
