Category
page 1Semitic languages
Semitic
language group containing Arabic and Hebrew
Syriac
dialect of Middle Aramaic

Ge'ez
thumb|Ezana stone, written in Geʽez explaining his conquests and accomplishments
Geez ( or ; , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now known as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Ethiopian Semitic
language family
West Semitic
sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages
East Semitic
language family
South Semitic
language family
Central Semitic
proposed intermediate group of Semitic languages
Proto-Semitic
hypothetical proto-language ancestral to the historical Semitic languages of the Middle East
Old South Arabian
language family
mater lectionis
representation of vowels as independent letters where they would otherwise be indicated by optional diacritics in a given orthography

Ancient North Arabian
language
Ancient North Arabian
extinct alphabet
Muher
language
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Western Asian people who resided in the ancient Near East until the end of antiquity
Atlantic (Semitic) languages
disputed Pre-Indo-European language family