Back Luengas semiticas centrals AN لغات سامية وسطى Arabic Llingües semítiques centrales AST Llengües semítiques centrals Catalan Zentralsemitische Sprachen German Centra ŝemida lingvaro Esperanto Lenguas semíticas centrales Spanish زبانهای سامی مرکزی Persian Middensemityske talen Frisian שפות שמיות מרכזיות HE
| Central Semitic | |
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| Geographic distribution | Middle East |
| Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | cent2236 |
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The Central Semitic languages comprise one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages.[1][2] They are therefore of the Semitic phylum of the Afroasiatic language family. The group is spoken across much of the Arabic peninsula and north into the Levant region.
Central Semitic can itself be further divided into two groups: Arabic and Northwest Semitic. Northwest Semitic languages largely fall into the Canaanite languages (such as Ammonite, Phoenician and Hebrew) and Aramaic.
- ^ Bennett, Patrick R. (1998). Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. ISBN 9781575060217.
- ^ Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na'ama (2013-10-08). The Semitic Languages. ISBN 9781136115882.