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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 .
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
In the Northwest Semitic languages, */w/ became */j/ at the beginning of a word, e.g. Hebrew yeled "boy" < *wald (cf. Arabic walad). There is evidence of a rule of assimilation of /j/ to the following coronal consonant in pre-tonic position, [clarification needed] shared by Hebrew, Phoenician, and Aramaic. [45] In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, is ...
Ugaritic is possibly also a Northwest Semitic language, but likely not Canaanitic. [7] [8] The Deir Alla inscription, written in a dialect with Aramaic and South Canaanitic characteristics, [citation needed] which is classified as Canaanite in Hetzron. Sutean, a Semitic language, possibly of the Canaanite branch.
Modern state of Neo-Aramaic languages, showing the remaining enclave of Western Neo-Aramaic (in green color) Today, Western Neo-Aramaic is the sole surviving remnant of the entire western branch of the Aramaic language, [21] spoken by no more than a few thousand people in the Anti-Lebanon mountains of Syria, mainly in Maaloula and Jubb'adin.
Northwest Semitic: Protective spells in Pyramid Texts 235, 236, 281, 286 from the Pyramid of Unas, written in hieroglyphic script but unintelligible as Egyptian [15] [16] Ugaritic is the earliest Northwest Semitic language to be unambiguously attested within its native context, c. 1300 BC. c. 2250 BC: Elamite: Awan dynasty peace treaty with ...
One month in the calendar of Emar, known from Akkadian texts and unattested elsewhere, was named Marzaḥānu.The last offering of this month is "brought" by LÚ. MEŠ mar-za-ḫu [12] (the men of the marzaḥu); the verb "brought" describing an offering is rare in Emar, and this is an indication for a procedure that is peculiar to the role of the marzaḥu.
23 languages. العربية ... Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Northwest Semitic languages" The following 6 pages are in this category ...