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10 hours ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b] [c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...
- Afroasiatic Languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
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10 hours ago · The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, [a] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [1] [2] They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages [3] spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa. [4] [5] The languages are primarily spoken and not ...
10 hours ago · Name The name Maipure was given to the family by Filippo S. Gilii in 1782, after the Maipure language of Venezuela, which he used as a basis of his comparisons. It was renamed after the culturally more important Arawak language a century later. The term Arawak took over, until its use was extended by North American scholars to the broader Macro-Arawakan proposal. At that time, the name ...
10 hours ago · ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely superseding the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard.
10 hours ago · Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]