Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Yemen , Oman , Ethiopia , Eritrea , Sudan
- Linguistic classification
- Afro-Asiatic Semitic West South Semitic
- Subdivisions
- Southeastern Southwestern, • Ethiopic , • Sayhadic (recently considered to be Central Semitic )
- Glottolog
- None
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Semitic
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- topic's main category
- Category:South Semitic languages
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Encyclopedic overview
South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afroasiatic language family, found in (North and East) Africa and Western Asia. The grouping is controversial and several alternate classifications supplanting South Semitic have been proposed in recent decades.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “South Semitic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.