 | The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern... 135 KB (10,483 words) - 12:25, 1 May 2024 |
the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. With 57,500,000 total speakers... 12 KB (970 words) - 20:52, 20 April 2024 |
 | The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages. The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian... 5 KB (476 words) - 17:28, 14 October 2023 |
Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early... 30 KB (2,954 words) - 15:23, 24 March 2024 |
 | The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of... 106 KB (10,899 words) - 18:09, 17 April 2024 |
The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages. The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel. The grouping... 5 KB (418 words) - 19:25, 24 August 2023 |
Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Central... 3 KB (319 words) - 12:29, 1 May 2024 |
| South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family, found in (North and East)... 6 KB (549 words) - 23:44, 13 April 2024 |
glottalized (Ethiopian Semitic languages, Modern South Arabian languages, such as [tʼ]), or as tenuis consonants (Turoyo language of Tur Abdin such as [t˭]);... 60 KB (6,269 words) - 10:29, 24 April 2024 |
 | Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics. First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen... 16 KB (1,843 words) - 22:04, 24 February 2024 |