Old South Arabian (or Ṣayhadic or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula.They were written in the Ancient South Arabian script.. There were a number of other Old South Arabian languages (e.g. Awsānian), of which very little evidence has survived, however.

Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / fə-NEE-shən) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.Extensive Tyro-Sidonian trade and commercial dominance led to Phoenician becoming a lingua franca of the maritime Mediterranean during the Iron Age.The Phoenician alphabet spread to Greece during this period, where it …

Hebrew (Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית ‎, ʿĪvrīt (help · info), IPA: or ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠁࠓࠉࠕ; Paleo-Hebrew script: ????????????‫????????) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family.Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans.

Yemen (/ ˈ j ɛ m ən / (); Arabic: ٱلْيَمَن, romanized: al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in Western Asia.It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia.Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula ...

Tayma / ˈ t aɪ m ə / (Arabic: تيماء) or Tema / ˈ t iː m ə / Teman/Tyeman (Habakkuk 3:3) is a large oasis with a long history of settlement, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia at the point where the trade route between Medina and Dumah begins to cross the Nefud desert. Tayma is located 264 km (164 mi) southeast of the city of Tabouk, and about 400 km (250 mi) north of Medina.

History and literature. Although it differs markedly from the Geʽez (Classical Ethiopic) language, for instance in having phrasal verbs, and in using a word order that places the main verb last instead of first in the sentence—there is a strong influence of Geʽez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms relating to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on.

Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremǹnkhēmi) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim conquest of ...

Sabean or Sabaean may refer to: . Sabaeans, ancient people in South Arabia . Sabaean language, Old South Arabian language; Sabians, name of a religious group mentioned in the Quran, historically adopted by: . Mandaeans, Gnostic sect from the marshlands of southern Iraq claiming John the Baptist as their most important prophet; Sabians of Harran, astral religion …

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and …

Classification. Afar is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is further categorized in the Lowland East Cushitic sub-group, along with Saho and Somali. Its closest relative is the Saho language. Geographic distribution. The Afar language is spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people in Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar Region of Ethiopia.