Afro-Asiatic is a term given to a group of languages spoken predominantly in Africa and parts of Asia. Some synonyms for the word Afro-Asiatic include Hamito-Semitic, Afrasian, and Afroasiatic. Hamito-Semitic is a now outdated term used to describe the same language family, which includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic. Afrasian is a term coined in the 1960s to describe the same group of languages. Afroasiatic is a more common and widely used synonym for Afro-Asiatic, and it encompasses all languages in the group including Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, Chadic, and Ancient Egyptian.