This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 06:46. ISBN 9781575060217. But how far is which language actually spread? "Some Difficulties in the Reconstruction of 'Proto-Hebrew' and 'Proto-Canaanite'," in In Memoriam Paul Kahle. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East. Some scholars would now separate Ugaritic as a separate branch of Northwest Semitic alongside Canaanite. Semitic. Also, in the Canaanite group, the series of Semitic interdental fricatives become sibilants: *ð (ḏ), *θ (ṯ) and *θ̣ (ṱ) became /z/, /ʃ/ (š) and /sˤ/ (ṣ) respectively. Amorite . Ancient Semitic peoples West Semitic. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which originated in the Middle East. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. 1990. These include some of the world's oldest attested languages, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic, as well as various modern languages. ISO 639-2 and 639-5: sem: Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. Identification of the hypothetical proto-Semitic region of origin is therefore dependent on the larger geographic distributions of the other language families within Afroasiatic. The South Semitic languages are a branch of Semitic languages. East Semitic; Geographic distribution: formerly Mesopotamia: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. Central Semitic. This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic. This is supported by the fac… Semitic; Geographic distribution: Middle East, North Africa, Northeast Africa and Malta: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. It was originally thought that all four members of this group were dialects of one Old South Arabian language, but in the mid-twentieth century, linguist A.F.L. Syriac; Writing system. Arabic. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. CC BY-SA 4.0 Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. 1988. Vaughn, A. This map, while not a complete collection nor a total representation of the Semitic languages, can help convey the general geographic areas in which the presented ancient Semitic Languages were widespread and written. The Semitic language family is also considered a component of the larger Afroasiatic macro-family of languages. German in Germany. South Ethiopic. English: This map compiles the locations of discovery of some ancient Semitic-language inscriptions, and groups them into their identified languages and language families. References Edit ↑ Bennett, Patrick R. (1998). South Semitic; Subdivisions: Eastern (Modern South Arabian) Western (Old South Arabian, Ethiopian Semitic languages. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the. Semitic; Proto-language: Proto-Semitic: Subdivisions: East Semitic (extinct) West Semitic. Semitic. That this same sound became /ʕ/ in Aramaic (although in Ancient Aramaic, it was written with qoph), suggests that Ugaritic is not the parent language of the group. These include some of the world's oldest attested languages, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic, as well as various modern languages. Afroasiatic, also known as Afrasian and in older sources as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. “The Early History of the West Semitic Peoples,”, Ginsberg, H. L. 1970. It would have emerged from Common Semitic in the Early Bronze Age. Central Semitic languages The Central Semitic languages are a proposed intermediate group of Semitic languages, comprising Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages: Aramaic, Ugaritic, and the Canaanite languages of Hebrew and Phoenician. West Semitic. “The Prefix Conjugation Patterns of Early Northwest Semitic,” pp. Afroasiatic languages have over 495 million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family. West Semitic. The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, … “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in, Cross, F. M. 1967. Semitic languages are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in large expatriate communities in North America and Europe. ↑ Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na'ama (2013-10-08). This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic. They think that Central and Southern Semitic languages are not related and are … The Semitic Languages. Samalian (extinct) The Northwest Semitic languages are a branch of Central Semitic languages. Ethiopian Semitic; Subdivisions: North Ethiopic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Northwest Semitic, known as Syro-Palestinian in dialect geography, is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating to the Late Bronze Age, which by the time of the Bronze Age collapse are joined by Old Aramaic, and by … Early traces of Semitic speakers are found, too, in South Ar… Northwest Semitic, known as Syro-Palestinian in dialect geography,[2] is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. The East Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages.The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian, Eblaite and Kishite all of which have been long extinct.Kishite language is the oldest known Semitic language.They were influenced by the non-Semitic Sumerian language and adopted cuneiform writing. The other branch of Semitic languages was East Semitic. The Phoenician alphabet is of fundamental importance in human history as the source and ancestor of the Greek alphabet, the later Latin alphabet, the Aramaic (Square Hebrew), Syriac, and Arabic writing systems, Germanic runes, and ultimately Cyrillic. Northwest Semitic; Subdivisions: Aramaic. Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were Western Asian people who lived throughout the ancient Near East, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa from the third millennium BC until the end of antiquity. "The Formal Scripts of Iron Age Transjordan,", Huehnergard, J. Semitic. Geographical distribution of languages worldwide English is spoken in England. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: (SVG file, nominally 2,100 × 2,300 pixels, file size: 744 KB), Geographic Distribution of some Ancient Semitic Inscriptions and their Languages.svg, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, User:OgreBot/Uploads by new users/2020 June 06 13:30, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:TheWearWolf, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Geographic_Distribution_of_some_Ancient_Semitic_Inscriptions_and_their_Languages.svg&oldid=503488665, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Aramaic survives today as the liturgical language of the Syriac Christian Church, and is spoken in modern dialects by small and endangered populations scattered throughout the Middle East. GilgameshTablet.jpg 750 × 842; 165 KB. “The Hebrew Language in its Northwest Semitic Background,” in, Moran, William L. 1975. The West Semitic languages are a large branch of Semitic languages. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. “The Northwest Semitic Languages,” in, Greenfield, J. C. 1969. During the early 1st millennium, the Phoenician language was spread throughout the Mediterranean by Phoenician colonists, most notably to Carthage in today's Tunisia. “Dialect Distribution in Canaan and the Deir Alla Inscriptions,” in, Herr, Larry G. 1980. Central Semitic; Subdivisions: Northwest Semitic. 1961. Canaanite. IncantationBowl.jpg 1,163 × 916; 960 KB. The first attestation of a Northwest Semitic language is of Ugaritic in the 14th century BC. Eblaite. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. It would have emerged from Common Semitic in the Early Bronze Age. Northwest Semitic. Aramaic. An example of this sound shift can be seen in the word for earth: Ugaritic /ʔart͡s/ (’arṣ), Punic /ʔart͡s/ (’arṣ), Hebrew /ʔɛrɛt͡s/ (’ereṣ) and Aramaic /ʔarʕaː/ (’ar‘ā’). Original file ‎(SVG file, nominally 2,100 × 2,300 pixels, file size: 744 KB), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 “Amurrite, Ugaritic and Canaanite,” in, Halpern, B. Semitic. Amharic is the most used Ethiopian Semitic language. Some linguists disagree with the branches. “The Origin and Early Evolution of the Alphabet,”, Cross, F. M. 1982. The Semitic languages, previously also named Syro-Arabian languages, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East that are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in often large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe and Australia. South Semitic. [6] SIL Ethnologue in its system of classification (of living languages only) eliminates Northwest Semitic entirely by joining Canaanite and Arabic in a "South-Central" group which together with Aramaic forms Central Semitic. “The Syrian Scribe of the Jerusalem Amarna Letters,” in, Rainey, A. F. 1986 “The Ancient Hebrew Prefix Conjugation in the Light of Amarnah Canaanite,”. South Semitic; Geographic distribution: Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Eritrea: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. Geographic distribution Syriac ... As with other Semitic languages, Aramaic morphology (the way words are formed) is based on the consonantal root. Cross, F. M. 1965. After the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, Arabic began to gradually replace Aramaic throughout the region. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Central Semitic. 407–420 in Abusch, Tz., Huehnergard, J. and Steinkeller, P., eds. It would have emerged from Common Semitic in the Early Bronze Age.It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. Semitic peoples and their languages, in both modern and ancient historic times, have covered a broad area bridging Africa, Western Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. The East Semitic languages were a branch of Semitic languages. 1999 “Palaeographic Dating of Judean Seals and Its Significance for Biblical Research,”, This page was last edited on 5 November 2020, at 23:24. The main two languages were Akkadian and Eblaite This page was last changed on 6 June 2020, at 14:26. noun plural Usage: capitalized S : a branch of the Afro Asiatic language family including Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic see afro asiatic languages table * * * Semitic languages plural noun Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Arabic,… Lenguas semiticas - … "Remarks on the Classification of the Northwest Semitic Languages," in, Kaufman, S. A. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: This map compiles the locations of discovery of some ancient Semitic-language inscriptions, and groups them into their identified languages and language families. East Semitic; Subdivisions: Akkadian. Central Semitic; Geographic distribution: Middle East: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. Eastern Aramaic. Semitic. Semitic. The effect of this sound shift can be seen by comparing the following words: Division of Semitic languages of the Levant, Comparison of Northwest Semitic scripts, by, "The subgrouping of the Semitic languages", The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, Chapter V, Kurzgefasste vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen, Elemente der Laut- und Formenlehre, Linguist List Central Semitic composite tree (with Aramaic and Canaanite grouped together in Northwest Semitic, and Arabic and Old South Arabian as sisters), Linguist List bibliography of sources for composite tree, Ethnologue Central Semitic entry (with Arabic and Canaanite grouped together against Aramaic), "The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification", "A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Semitic_languages&oldid=987266468, Languages attested from the 14th century BC, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. There are several locations proposed as possible sites for prehistoric origins of Semitic-speaking peoples: Mesopotamia, the Levant, East Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa, with the most recent Bayesian studies supporting the view that Semitic originated in the Levant circa 3800 BC, and was later also introduced to the Horn of Africa in approximately 800 BC from the southern Arabian peninsula, and to North Africa via Phoeniciancolonists at approximately the same time. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years. truetrue. Gideon Goldenberg describes their history, geographical distribution, writing systems, and genetic classi?cation. They came from the Levant in the Middle East. The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian, Eblaite and Kishite all of which have been long extinct. Northwest Semitic; Levantine: Geographic distribution: concentrated in the Middle East: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. “The Invention and Development of the Alphabet,” in, de Moor, Johannes C. 1988. There is also an Aramaic substratum in Levantine Arabic. Kishite language is the oldest known Semitic language. Brockelmann's Canaanite sub-group includes Ugaritic, Phoenician and Hebrew. The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating to the Late Bronze Age, which by the time of the Bronze Age collapse are joined by Old Aramaic, and by the Iron Age by the Canaanite languages (Phoenician and Hebrew). Geographic distribution: West Asia, North Africa, Northeast Africa, Malta; Proto-language: Proto-Semitic; Linguistic classification: Afro-AsiaticSemitic; Subdivisions: East Semitic †, West Semitic 1987. The two branches of West Semitic languages are Central and Southern. Blau, J. They were influenced by the non-Semitic Sumerian language and adopted cuneiform writing. Central Semitic is a proposed intermediate group comprising Northwest Semitic and Arabic. “The Classification of North West Semitic Dialects of the Biblical Period and Some Implications Thereof,” in, Moran, William L. 1961. “Alphabets and pots: Reflections on typological method in the dating of human artifacts,”, Cross, F. M. 1989. It is the official working language of Ethiopia and has about 62 million speakers (including second language speakers). The root generally consists of two or three consonants and has a basic meaning, for example, כת״ב k-t-b has the meaning of 'writing'. Geographic Distribution of some Ancient Semitic Inscriptions and their Languages.svg 2,100 × 2,300; 744 KB. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Hebrew was preserved, however, as a Jewish liturgical language and language of scholarship, and resurrected in the 19th century, with modern adaptations, to become the Modern Hebrew language of the State of Israel. They are mainly spoken in East Africa and Southern Arabia. [8][9], It is clear that Taymanitic script expressed a distinct linguistic variety that is not Arabic and not closely related to Hismaic or Safaitic, while it can tentatively be suggested that it was more closely related to Northwest Semitic.[10]. "Narrative Poetry in Canaan,", Gelb, I. J. Iraqi Koine Vowel Trapezoid.svg 921 × 702; 13 KB. The ancient Judaeans adopted Aramaic for daily use, and parts of the Tanakh are written in it. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Ethiopian Semitic; Geographic distribution: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. Beeston finally proved that they did in fact constitute independent languages. They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. West Semitic. The vowel shift from *aː to /oː/ distinguishes Canaanite from Ugaritic. The languages they spoke are usually divided into three branches: East, Central, and South Semitic languages. 1968. [3], The term was coined by Carl Brockelmann in 1908,[4] who separated Fritz Hommel's 1883 classification of West Semitic languages[4] into Northwest (Canaanite and Aramaic) and Southwest (Arabic and Abyssinian).[5]. Phonologically, Ugaritic lost the sound Rainey, A. F. 1990. The earliest historic (written) evidences of them are found in the Fertile Crescent, an area encompassing the Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, extending northwest into southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean. The Semitic languages, previously also named Syro-Arabian languages, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East that are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in often large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe and Australasia. The proto-Semitic language was likely spoken in the 4th millennium BC, and the oldest attested forms of Semitic … Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. It is extinct. It is extinct. Classification issues. GilgameshTablet.png 416 × 480; 502 KB. *ṣ́, replacing it with /t͡s/ (ṣ) (the same shift occurred in Canaanite and Akkadian). Actually, English and French are often considered "world languages" in the Western world. The time period for the split of Northwest Semitic from Proto-Semitic or from other Semitic groups is uncertain. [7] The Deir Alla Inscription and Samalian have been identified as language varieties falling outside Aramaic proper but with some similarities to it, possibly in an "Aramoid" or "Syrian" subgroup. Ethiopian Semitic (also Ethio-Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian ) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. By the 6th century BC, the use of Aramaic spread throughout the Northwest Semitic region (see Imperial Aramaic), largely driving the other Northwest Semitic languages to extinction. Central Semitic is either a subgroup of West Semitic or a top-level division of Semitic alongside East Semitic and South Semitic. Semitic. Central Semitic; Geographic distribution: Middle East, North Africa: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. It is the only branch of Semitic languages with languages still spoken. West Semitic. 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