In a language from this family, comparatives and superlatives can be expressed with the elative, not to be confused with the elative case in other languages.
In a language from this family, comparatives and superlatives can be expressed with the elative, not to be confused with the elative case in other languages. Almost all languages in this family have a type of obstruents called emphatic consonants. A construction in which a phonologically reduced possessed noun is followed by a possessor noun, the construct state, is most common in this family. Alphasyllabary scripts are called (*) abugidas after the script used to write a member of this family, Ge'ez. Much nominal and verbal morphology in this family is based on triconsonantal roots. Tigrinya and Amharic belong to this family's Ethiopian branch. For 10 points, name this branch of the Afro-Asiatic family which includes Arabic and Hebrew.
In a language from this family, comparatives and superlatives can be expressed with the elative, not to be confused with the elative case in other languages.
Semitic languages [prompt on "Afro-Asiatic languages" before mentioned] 