Semitic language

A Semitic language is a member of a family of related languages originating in the Middle East and North Africa, characterized by root-based morphology and including languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic.

Aliases (17)

• Afroasiatic language ×17
• branch of language family ×11
• Arabic dialect ×10
• Northwest Semitic language ×5
• vernacular Arabic ×4
• Canaanite language ×2
• Aramaic language ×1
• Eastern Neo-Aramaic language ×1
• Middle Aramaic language ×1
• Semitic languages ×1
• South Ethiosemitic languages ×1
• South Semitic language ×1
• ancient language group ×1
• group of Arabic dialects ×1
• language of Mesopotamia ×1
• modern Aramaic language ×1
• modern Eastern Aramaic language ×1

Instances (73)

• Mesopotamian Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Hijazi Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• West Germanic languages ("branch of language family")
• Arabic
• Southwestern Turkic ("branch of language family")
• Aramaic
• Judeo-Arabic ("group of Arabic dialects")
• Indo-Iranian languages ("branch of language family")
• Moabite ("Northwest Semitic language")
• Northwest Semitic ("branch of language family")
• Marshallese language group ("branch of language family")
• Ammonite ("Northwest Semitic language")
• Old South Arabian ("ancient language group")
• Edomite ("Northwest Semitic language")
• Tarifit ("Afroasiatic language")
• Siwi ("Afroasiatic language")
• Kabyle ("Afroasiatic language")
• Ugric languages ("branch of language family")
• Shenwa ("Afroasiatic language")
• Najdi Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Akkadian
• Luwic languages ("branch of language family")
• Phoenician language ("Northwest Semitic language")
• Amharic
• Somali ("Afroasiatic language")
• Oromo ("Afroasiatic language")
• Tigrinya
• Oran Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Coptic language ("Afroasiatic language")
• Ge'ez
• Hebrew ("Northwest Semitic language")
• Central Semitic languages ("branch of language family")
• Tashelhit ("Afroasiatic language")
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ("modern Aramaic language")
• Afar ("Afroasiatic language")
• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic ("modern Eastern Aramaic language")
• Maltese
• Chadian Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Nigerian Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Modern South Arabian languages ("Semitic languages")
• Sabaic
• Geez ("South Semitic language")
• Maghrebi Arabic ("vernacular Arabic")
• Hausa ("Afroasiatic language")
• Northern Athabaskan languages ("branch of language family")
• Upland Yuman ("branch of language family")
• Tihami Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Yafiʿi Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• Razihi Arabic ("vernacular Arabic")
• Syriac ("Middle Aramaic language")
• Ancient Egyptian ("Afroasiatic language")
• Tigre
• Gurage languages ("South Ethiosemitic languages")
• Gulf Arabic ("Arabic dialect")
• North Dravidian languages ("branch of language family")
• Saho ("Afroasiatic language")
• Sudanese Arabic ("Arabic dialect")