Proto–Afro-Asiatic's the hypothetical proto-language from which modern Afro-Asiatic languages are descended. Homeland It's today commonly accepted that proto–Afro-Asiatic was spoken in Africa (perhaps the Northeastern Sahara, for example), but in the past a number of theories were expounded. Alternative Afro-Asiatic Homelands The Middle East Alexander Militarev and V. Shairelman (1988) suggest that the Afro-Asiatic homeland's the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula. They suggest t… (More on Proto-afro-asiatic)