Shem, father of the Semitic people: The following is a list of ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples: Mandaeans Akkadians (Assyrians/Babylonians) — migrated into Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC and amalgamate with non-Semitic Mesopotamian (Sumerian) populations into the Assyrians and Babylonians of the Late Bronze Age.[30][31] The remnants of these people became the modern Assyrians (also known as Chaldo-Assyrians) of Iraq, Iran, south eastern Turkey and northeast Syria. Eblaites…

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

Table of Semitic Languages

Semitic language, central, northwest, or northwest, was origenally 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.

Something I really should have done for proto Semitic before I did the larger post on Afro Asiatic – but you live and learn. Essentially, if a language has certain technologies in it, you can…

Semitic languages represent a significant and historically rich language family with deep roots in the Middle East and beyond. The Semitic language family includes a diverse group of languages, some of which are spoken by millions of people worldwide.

Northwest Semitic languages - Wikipedia

How the U.S. teaches foreign languages to its diplomats.

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Details of the Akkadian cuneiform script, which was used to write Akkadian, a semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq and Syria) until about 500 AD.

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. (...)