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Central Semitic languages. 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.
Modern distribution of the Semitic languages. Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
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Proposed intermediate group of Semitic languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages.
The Central Semitic languages are a branch of West Semitic languages. They are spoken in the Middle East and North Africa . The branch is made up of two parts, Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages (including Hebrew and Aramaic ).
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Semitic languages were confined in a relatively small geographic area (Greater Syria, Mesopotamia and the Arabian desert) and often spoken in contiguous regions. Permanent contacts between the speakers of these languages facilitated borrowingbetween them. Borrowing disrupts historical processes of change and makes it difficult to reconstruct the ge...
According to Dutch linguist Kees Versteegh, modern vernaculars (also called dialects, colloquial varieties or spoken Arabic varieties) are classified as follows:[a][b]
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