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South Semitic
Geographic
distribution
Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Eritrea
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • West Semitic
      • South Semitic
Subdivisions
  • Modern South Arabian
  • Ethiopian Semitic
  • Old South Arabian?
GlottologNone
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Approximate historical distribution of South Semitic languages

South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family, found in (North and East) Africa and Western Asia.

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South Semitic languages

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South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family, found in (North and East)...

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Semitic languages

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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...

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West Semitic languages

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the Semitic language family into two branches: Eastern and Western. The West Semitic languages consist of the clearly defined sub-groups: Modern South Arabian...

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Modern South Arabian languages

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The Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations...

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Central Semitic languages

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Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Central...

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Northwest Semitic languages

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Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early...

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Afroasiatic languages

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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

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Classification of Arabic languages

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satisfactory way of representing the development of the Semitic languages (contrary to Indo-European languages, which spread over a wide area and were usually...

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South Semitic scripts

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variants remain in use today for various Ethiosemitic languages. In Arabia, the South Semitic scripts were replaced by the Arabic script, which is descended...

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Semitic people

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Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics. First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen...

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Old South Arabian

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independent languages. The Old South Arabian languages were originally classified (partly on the basis of geography) as South Semitic, along with Modern South Arabian...

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Canaanite languages

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The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being...

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Tigrinya language

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characters. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region...

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Akkadian language

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the Northwest Semitic languages and South Semitic languages in its subject–object–verb word order, while the other Semitic languages usually have either...

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Amharic

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Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas...

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Soqotri language

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di-saḳɔ́ṭri; Arabic: اللغة السقطرية, al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah) is a South Semitic language spoken by the Soqotri people on the island of Socotra and the two...

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Mehri people

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Mahri language, which is a Semitic language belonging to the eastern family within the group of South Semitic languages, and it is a language closely...

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Hebrew language

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𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken...

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Languages of Asia

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by the Semitic branch. Semitic languages are spoken in Western Asia, and include Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic, in addition to extinct languages such as...

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Yemeni Arabic

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Non-Arabic South Semitic languages indigenous to the region include several Modern South Arabian languages, such as the Mehri and Soqotri languages, which...

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Himyaritic language

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sparsely attested Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Yemen, by the Himyarite tribal confederacy. It was a Semitic language but either did not...

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Kartvelian languages

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known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia. There...

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Languages of Africa

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outside Africa. Some of the most widely spoken Afroasiatic languages include Arabic (a Semitic language, and a recent arrival from West Asia), Somali (Cushitic)...

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