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Table of Semitic Languages

Click the image above to expand it. (Careful, it’s big!) Here is a map of most of the Semitic languages (both living and dead) roughly arrayed out by how they are related to one another. It…

Hamites were said to have spoken "Hamitic languages", which consisted of Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages of the Berber, Cushitic and Egyptian branches.

Semitic language, central, northwest, or northwest, was originally spoken by Middle Eastern residents known as Arameans. The Aramaic alphabet is 22 letters and is written from right to left as most Semitic languages. It is believed that the first appearance of Aramaic in the eleventh century BC.

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Tigre (ትግረ / ትግሬ / ኻሳ) is a member of the Ethiopic branch of South Semitic languages. It is spoken by about 800,000 people in Eritrea, particularly in western parts of that country, and also in neighbouring areas of Sudan, where the language is known as Xasa (ኻሳ). It is thought to have descended from Ge'ez, the liturgical language used in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. (...)

Amharic is the official language in Ethiopia. It is a semitic language and is written with a unique alphabet used only in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Details of the Sumerian cuneiform script, the world's oldest writing system, and the Sumerian language.