Semitic languages

language group containing Arabic and Hebrew

dialect of Middle Aramaic

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.

language family

sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages

language family

language family

proposed intermediate group of Semitic languages

hypothetical proto-language ancestral to the historical Semitic languages of the Middle East

language family

representation of vowels as independent letters where they would otherwise be indicated by optional diacritics in a given orthography

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extinct alphabet

language

Western Asian people who resided in the ancient Near East until the end of antiquity

disputed Pre-Indo-European language family