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Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1535 words) |
 | Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC. |
| By the end of the millennium, East Semitic languages dominated in Mesopotamia, while West Semitic languages were probably spoken from Syria to Yemen, although data is sparse. |
| A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while Harari is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers. |
| Encyclopedia: Semitic languages (4901 words) |
| Proto-Semitic is the hypothetical proto-language of the Semitic languages. |
| The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. |
| Ethiopic languages is a language group which belongs to the Western branch of the Southern Semitic languages. |
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