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  1. Maltese
    Maltese is one of the least-spoken Semitic languages with around 490,000 native speakers, but has the distinction of being the only Semitic language written with the Roman alphabet, as well as being the only one to be an official language of the European Union.

    All In The Language Family: The Semitic Languages

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    What is the most widely spoken Semitic language?Arabic is by far the most widely spoken of the Semitic languages, with around 300 million native speakers spread across the vast majority of North Africa and throughout the Arabian Peninsula.

    All In The Language Family: The Semitic Languages

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    How did the Semitic language family get its name?Around 1700 Hiob Ludolf, who had written grammars of Geez and Amharic (both Ethiopic Semitic languages) in the seventeenth century, recognized the extension of the Semitic family into East Africa. Thus when von Schlozer named the family in 1781 he was merely recognizing genetic relationships that had been known for centuries.

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    Which Semitic languages do not have singular noun flexions?^ "In the historically attested Semitic languages, the endings of the singular noun-flexions survive, as is well known, only partially: in Akkadian and Arabic and Ugaritic and, limited to the accusative, in Ethiopic."

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    Are the Semitic languages related to African languages?In the mid-19th century, Friedrich Müller argued that the Semitic languages were related to a large group of African languages, which he termed Hamitic. This implied a larger grouping, Indo-European—Hamito-Semitic.

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    The Chaldean language (not to be confused with Aramaic or its Biblical variant, sometimes referred to as Chaldean) was a Northwest Semitic language, possibly closely related to Aramaic, but no examples of the language remain, as after settling in south eastern Mesopotamia from the Levant during the 9th … See more

    Overview

    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

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    History

    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 more

    Phonology

    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 reconstruction of Proto-Semitic used in this article. The reconstruction of … See more

    Common vocabulary

    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 more

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    Name and identification

    The similarity of the Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic languages has been accepted by all scholars since medieval times. The languages were familiar to Western European scholars … See more

    Present situation

    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 Quran. It is also studied widely in the non-Arabic-speaking Muslim world. The Maltese language is genetically a … See more

    Grammar

    The Semitic languages share a number of grammatical features, although variation — both between separate languages, and within the languages themselves — has naturally occurred over time.
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  4. Semitic languages | Definition, Map, Tree, Distribution, & Facts

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    WebSemitic 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 …

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  5. All In The Language Family: The Semitic Languages

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    • All together, there are currently around 380 million native speakers of Semitic languages in the world, with the vast majority of those being speakers of Arabic. Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, is the next most spoken Semitic language with around 65 million native speakers. Maltese is one of the least-spoken Semitic languages with aroun...
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  6. Semitic Languages | Encyclopedia.com

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    WebJun 08, 2018 · Semitic languages Group of languages spoken by peoples native to n …

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