WebTigrinya (ትግርኛ; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethiopian Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions. Indigenous people in the Eritrean highlands and in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia speak it as their first language

WebPhoenician (/ 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 …

WebA corpus language is a language that has no living speakers, though a number of the actual productions of the native speakers have been preserved in some way (usually in written records). Examples of corpus languages are Ancient Greek, Latin, the Egyptian Language, Old English and Elamite.. Some corpus languages left a very large corpus, …

WebThis article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: The article is largely written from a POV as if there would be a single Aramaic language with different dialects.But from a modern linguistic perspective this is not an adequate description (see the relevant references in the introduction and #Aramaic languages and …

WebClassification. 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.

WebAkkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /, Akkadian: ???????????????? akkadû) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa and Babylonia) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement by Akkadian-influenced Old Aramaic among Mesopotamians by the 8th century BC.. It is the earliest documented Semitic …

WebBiblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית, (Ivrit Miqra'it) (help · info) or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא, (Leshon ha-Miqra) (help · info)), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and ...

WebSeveral calendars have been used in pre-Islamic Arabia.Inscriptions of the ancient South Arabian calendars reveal the use of a number of local calendars. At least some of these South Arabian calendars followed the lunisolar system.For Central Arabia, especially Mecca, there is a lack of epigraphic evidence, but details are found in the writings of Muslim …

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WebDadanitic was the alphabet used by the inhabitants of the ancient oasis of Dadan (Biblical Dedān, modern Al-`Ula in north-west Saudi Arabia), probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BC.. Dumaitic. Dumaitic is the alphabet which seems to have been used by the inhabitants of the oasis known in antiquity as Dūma and later as Dumat …