Basa Afro-Asiatik iku rumpun basa kanggo anggota mèh 240 basa lan 285 yuta penutur sing sumebar ing laladan Afrika Lor, Afrika Wétan, Sahel, lan Asia Kidul-Kulon. Jeneng liya tumrap rumpun basa iki ya iku Afrasia, Hamito-Semitik (ora dianggo manèh), Lisramic (Hodge 1972), Erythraean (Tucker 1966). Sajeroning rumpun basa iki kalebu basa-basa tinulis klasik sing duwé sajarah dawa, malah paling dawa,kaya déné basa Arab, basa Ibrani, basa Amharik, lan basa Koptik. Basa Arab duwé prabawa kuwat marang basa Melayu/basa Indonesia amarga panggunaan minangka basa kitab suci agama Islam. Siji-sijiné basa Afroasiatik sing didadèkaké basa resmi ing Uni Éropah ya iku basa Malta.

Subrumpun basa ini ya iku:
 Basa-basa Berber
 Basa-basa Chadik
 Basa-basa Egiptik/Koptik
 Basa-basa Semitik
 Basa-basa Kushitik
 Basa Beja (subklasifikasi kontroversial; kanthi umum kalebu minangka basa Kushitik)
 Basa-basa Omotik (kontroversial; kadhangkala dianggep Afroasiatik jaba)

Bibliografi etimologi 
Sawetara sumber utama etimologi Afro-Asia kalebu:
 Marcel Cohen, Essai comparatif sur la vocabulaire et la phonétique du chamito-sémitique, Champion, Paris 1947.
 Igor M. Diakonoff et al., "Historical-Comparative Vocabulary of Afrasian", St. Petersburg Journal of African Studies No. 2-6, 1993-7.
 Christopher Ehret. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics 126), California, Berkeley 1996.
 Vladimir E. Orel dan Olga V. Stolbova, Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction, Brill, Leiden 1995

Sumber 
 Bernd Heine dan Derek Nurse, African Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2000 - Bab 4
 Merritt Ruhlen, A Guide to the World's Languages, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1991.
 Lionel Bender et al., Selected Comparative-Historical Afro-Asiatic Studies in Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff, LINCOM 2003.
 Ethnologue
 Russell G. Schuh, Chadic Overview .
 African Language History (pdf), Roger Blench
 Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2012), Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics .
 Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew, Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 9781403917232)
 Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2014), Jewish Language Contact (=International Journal of the Sociology of Language 226).

Uga delengen 
 Basa-basa Afrika

Pranala njaba 
 Perbandingan rekonstruksi Orel-Stolbova dengan Ehret
 The Origins of Afroasiatic olèh Paul Newman