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Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian (also known as Assyrian and Babylonian) and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from c. 2600 BCE in Mesopotamia and the northeastern Levant respectively.
Some tweaks (tree branches added, "live descentents" to "living language"). 21:28, 6 February 2012: 712 × 917 (1.14 MB) Kathovo: rm North Somalia per request: 20:53, 19 December 2011: 712 × 917 (1.14 MB) Kathovo: merged Mandaic with Aramaic and removed red ouline from modern Iraq. 21:08, 13 December 2011: 712 × 917 (1.15 MB) Kathovo: merged ...
Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group [2] [3] [4] ... Semitic language family tree included under "Afro-Asiatic" in SIL's ...
Approximate historical distribution of the Semitic languages in the Ancient Near East.. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs ...
The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages.The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel. [1] [2] [3]The grouping [4] supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard divides the Semitic language family into two branches: Eastern and Western.
Central Semitic languages [1] [2] are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Central Semitic can itself be further divided into two groups: Arabic and Northwest Semitic. Northwest Semitic languages largely fall into the Canaanite languages (such as Phoenician ...
The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions. Edited by Robert Hetzron. New York: Routledge, 1997. Garnier, Romain; Jacques, Guillaume (2012). "A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 75 (1): 135– 145.
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common ancestor to the Semitic language family.There is no consensus regarding the location of the Proto-Semitic Urheimat: scholars hypothesize that it may have originated in the Levant, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, or northern Africa.