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  2. Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese 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 ...

  3. Semitic people - Wikipedia

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    Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group [2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics. [6][7][8] First used in the 1770s by members of the ...

  4. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples - Wikipedia

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    Approximate historical distribution of the Semitic languages in the Ancient Near East.. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs ...

  5. Afroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [4] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...

  6. Category:Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    A. Ancient North Arabian. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples. Atlantic (Semitic) languages.

  7. Northwest Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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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 oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating to the Late Bronze Age, which by the time of the ...

  8. West Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages. The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel. [1][2][3] The grouping [4] supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard divides the Semitic language family into two branches: Eastern and Western. [5]

  9. List of Jewish diaspora languages - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Semitic languages. 1.2.1 Arabic languages. ... This is a list of languages and groups of languages that developed within Jewish diaspora communities through ...