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1 day 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...
- West Semitic
The grouping supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron...
- East Semitic
They were influenced by the non-Semitic Sumerian language...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
May 23, 2024 · Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. (See also Afro-Asiatic languages.) Scholars have struggled to define Arabic as a language.
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3 days ago · Nabataean Aramaic was the written language of the Arab kingdom of Nabataea, whose capital was Petra. The kingdom ( c. 200 BC – 106 AD) controlled the region to the east of the Jordan River, the Negev, the Sinai Peninsula, and the northern Hijaz, and supported a wide-ranging trade network.
3 days ago · The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf al-ʿarabiyyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
6 days ago · The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [2] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the ...
May 22, 2024 · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
4 days ago · Origin of the Albanians. v. t. e. Arbëresh ( gluha/gjuha/gjufa Arbëreshe; also known as Arbërisht) is the variety of Albanian spoken by the Arbëreshë people of Italy. It is derived from the Albanian Tosk spoken in Albania, in Epirus. A related language is spoken by the Arvanites, with endonym Arvanitika .
