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2 days 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
Modern understanding of the phonology of East Semitic...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
2 days ago · The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( r n km.t) [1] [6] is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century.
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- Ancient Egyptians
- Upper? †, Lower? †, Coptic dialects †
- Afro-Asiatic, Egyptian
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2 days ago · 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 .
- 373 million (2023)
- Arab world
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May 4, 2024 · OR What if they died out very early in History? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Afroasiatic_peoples In this alternate history scenario, something...
Similarly, monotheism appeared much much later among Semites than did the masc/fem gender system. (Scholars seem to think the gender system in fact goes back to Proto-afroasiatic, which was spoken about at least thousands of years before the first clear signs of monotheism in any semitic culture.)
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