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   Where are Semitic languages spoken?

   • Today, Semitic languages are spoken across North Africa, West Asia, and the Horn of Africa, as well as on the island of Malta, making them the sole Afroasiatic branch with members originating outside Africa.

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   What are the two types of Semitic languages?

   • Most authorities divide Semitic into two branches: East Semitic, which includes the extinct Akkadian language and West Semitic, which includes Arabic, Aramaic, the Canaanite languages (including Hebrew), as well as the Ethiopian Semitic languages such as Ge'ez and Amharic. The classification within West Semitic remains contested.

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   What was the earliest Semitic language?

   • It is the earliest documented Semitic language. It used the cuneiform script, which was a script used to write multiple languages including Sumerian, Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite, and Hittite. Akkadian is named after the city of Akkad, a major centre of Mesopotamian civilization during the Akkadian Empire ( c. 2334 –2154 BC).

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   Is Aramaic a Semitic language?

   • 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.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AramaicAramaic - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · As with most Semitic languages, Aramaic can be thought of as having three basic sets of vowels: Open a-vowels; Close front i-vowels; Close back u-vowels; These vowel groups are relatively stable, but the exact articulation of any individual is most dependent on its consonantal setting.

   • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

     Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ארמית Ārāmît) was the...

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   • Armazic Language

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   • Imperial Aramaic

     Imperial Aramaic (Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀, romanized: Ārāmāyā) is a...

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     Aram (Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡌, romanized: ʾĀrām; Hebrew:...

   • Afroasiatic languages

     The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Akkadian_languageAkkadian language - Wikipedia

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   4 days ago · Akkadian belongs with the other Semitic languages in the Near Eastern branch of the Afroasiatic languages, a family native to Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, parts of Anatolia, parts of the Horn of Africa, North Africa, Malta, Canary Islands and parts of West Africa ( Hausa ).

   • Dialects: Assyrian, Babylonian, Canaano-Akkadian, Old Akkadian
   • Writing system: Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform

   • Region: Mesopotamia

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AmharicAmharic - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · Amharic ( / æmˈhærɪk / am-HARR-ik [4] [5] [6] or / ɑːmˈhɑːrɪk / ahm-HAR-ik; [7] native name: አማርኛ, romanized : Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] ⓘ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.

   • Signed forms: Signed Amharic
   • Official language in: Ethiopia

   • Native to: Ethiopia

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Indo-European_languagesIndo-European languages - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

   • Notes: † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
   • Proto-language: Proto-Indo-European

   • Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families

6. journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de › aethiopica › articleBibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic ...

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   4 days ago · Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022.

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Egyptian_languageEgyptian language - Wikipedia

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   6 days ago · The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian (r n km.t) 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.