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Linguist List. xsa-him. Glottolog. None. Himyaritic [1] is an unattested or sparsely attested Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Yemen, by the Himyarite tribal confederacy. [2] It was a Semitic language but either did not belong to the Old South Arabian ( Sayhadic) languages according to Christian Robin or was, as more widely accepted ...
Phoenician ( / fəˈniːʃən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician śpt knʿn lit. 'language of Canaan' [2]) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
Glottolog. east2680. Eastern Aramaic refers to a group of dialects [3] that evolved historically from the varieties of Aramaic spoken in the core territories of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq, southeastern Turkey and parts of northeastern Syria) and further expanded into northern Syria, [4] [5] eastern Arabia [6] [7] and northwestern Iran.
South Semitic is divided into two uncontroversial branches: [6] Western. Old South Arabian – possibly extinct, formerly believed to be the linguistic ancestors of modern South Arabian Semitic languages, modern South Arabian now being classified as Eastern South Semitic. The Razihi language and Faifi language are probably descendants.
Mehri. Mehri or Mahri (مهريّت) [romanization needed] is the most spoken of the Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is spoken by the Mehri tribes, who inhabit isolated areas of the eastern part of Yemen, western Oman, particularly the Al Mahrah Governorate, with a small ...
Eblaite ( / ˈɛblə.aɪt, ˈiːblə -/, [2] also known as Eblan ISO 639-3 ), or Palaeosyrian, [3] [4] is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. [5] It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria. [5] Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar.
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian [2]) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. [1] They form 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 as of 2019, including around ...
