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Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze Age. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age.
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Northwest Semitic. Subdivisions: Aramaic. Canaanite. Amorite...
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Aramaic belongs to the Northwest group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite and Ugaritic.
May 20, 2024 · Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years. Languages in current use. In the early 21st century the most important Semitic language, in terms of the number of speakers, was Arabic.
Northwest Semitic Philology is intended as a comprehensive title to include a variety of specific programs devoted to the study of texts in the languages and dialects of the Northwest Semitic peoples (Ugaritic, Phoenician-Punic, the Transjordanian dialects, all dialects of Hebrew and of Aramaic).
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Hebrew ( Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית. , ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ivˈʁit] ⓘ or [ʕivˈriθ] ⓘ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
