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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languagesAramaic, a still living ancient Northwest Semitic language, first attested in the 12th century BC in the northern Levant, gradually replaced the East Semitic and Canaanite languages across much of the Near East, particularly after being adopted as the lingua franca of the vast Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC) by … See more
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, … See more
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Semitic languages were spoken and written across much of the Middle East and Asia Minor during the Bronze Age and Iron Age, … See moreThe similarity of the Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic languages has been accepted by all scholars since medieval times. The languages were … See more
Arabic is currently the native language of majorities from Mauritania to Oman, and from Iraq to the Sudan. Classical Arabic is the language of the See more
The phonologies of the attested Semitic languages are presented here from a comparative point of view. See Proto-Semitic language#Phonology for details on the phonological … See more
Due to the Semitic languages' common origin, they share some words and roots. Others differ. For example:
Terms given in brackets are not derived from the respective Proto-Semitic roots, though they may also derive from Proto-Semitic (as does … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseSemitic languages | Definition, Map, Tree, Distribution, & Facts
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semitic-languagesSemitic 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 …
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Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were people who lived throughout the ancient Near East, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity.
Their languages are usually divided into three branches: East, Central and South Semitic languages. The Proto-Semitic language was likely spoken in the 4th millennium BC, and the oldest attested …Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license Images of Ancient Semitic languages
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(1) Babylonian-Assyrian (including inscriptions from c. 4000 B.C. to c. 250 B.C.). (2) Canaanitish Dialects: Canaanitish glosses in the El-Amarna tablets; Hebrew (including Biblical Hebrew …
Semitic Languages – Institute of Semitic Studies
https://instituteofsemiticstudies.org/wordpress/languagesTraditionally, Semitic linguistics has been studied as a field of interest of specialists in a given branch or language, but we are ready now for finer research into the Semitic family as a …
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Jul 01, 2017 · 4593. For over five thousand years people we now refer to historically as Semites moved across the ancient Near East. Their legacy is still unfolding today. The term “Semitic” was coined in 1781 by the German …
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