Wiktionary:About Proto-Afroasiatic

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Proto afroasiatic is the reconstructed ancestor of Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic languages.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Liquid	Laryngeal
Nasal	m	n			ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Voiceless plosive	p	t	s	ɬ	c	k	kʷ		ʔ
Voiced plosive	b	d	z	dl	j	g	gʷ
Emphatic plosive	p'	t'	s'	tl'	c'	k'	kʷ'
Voiceless fricative	f	ts			š	x	xʷ		h, ḥ
Voiced fricative	w	dz			y	ɣ	ɣʷ	l, r	ʕ

Vowels

Short	Long
a, e, i, o, u	aa, ee, ii, oo, uu

Tones

Falling	Rising	Level
è	é	ē

Inflection

It is accepted that proto-Afroasiatic had a complex inflectional system. However, no consensus exists as of yet as to how it might have looked like.

For this reason, words without their inflection are to be considered roots.