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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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.
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Modern South Arabian
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Old South Arabian
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Ethiopian Semitic
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Africa
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Ethiopia
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Sudan
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Yemen
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Arabic
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Eritrea
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Oman
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Hebrew
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North Africa
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International Standard Book Number
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Arabian Peninsula
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Maltese
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West Asia
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Amharic
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Semitic
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Aramaic
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Afroasiatic
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