Semitic Language Tree. The Semitic Language Tree chart represents a variety of Semitic language scholars opinions. As with anything, the scholarly community is not 100% agreed. Please notice that Eblaite is listed in both the Eastern and Western Proto-Semitic lines. This is because Eblaite has both elements linguistically.

Guide to Appendix II 2071 THE SEMITIC FAMILY TREE The Semitic family of languages is descended from the prehistoric Proto-Semitic language, which was spoken in an as yet unidentified area in the Near East or Northern Africa around the fifth or early fourth millennium bc.

Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years. Languages in current use. In the early 21st century the most important Semitic …

08/06/2018 · Semitic languages Group of languages spoken by peoples native to n Africa and the Middle East and forming one of the five branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family. The Semitic languages divide into three sub-branches: North West Semitic (including Hebrew, Aramaic, and Eblaite); North East Semitic (consisting of Akkadian); and Central and Southern Semitic …

All modern European languages are the daughters of mother tongues such as the Neo-Latin languages, derived precisely from Latin (, such as Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc; also known as Romance languages), Germanic languages (e.g. English, German), Slavic languages (Slovak, Czech, Russian, etc.), Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, etc.), and many other ones …

23/01/2015 · Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family and shares roots with some indigenous tongues in Scandinavia such as Sami. Photograph: Minna Sundberg Facebook Twitter