Afroasiatic

Even with this broad time frame, contemporary linguists widely accept Afroasiatic as the oldest language family.

Football, basketball and all team sports have their roots in Central America’s ancient, seemingly Afroasiatic Olmec civilization.

These were the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa who spoke Afroasiatic languages, a world away from Arabic, and who practiced various animist cults.

Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa.

But the exact point at which Hebrew and Arabic diverged from other Afroasiatic languages is heavily disputed.