Central Semitic languages
- Central Semitic languages
Infobox Language family
name = Central Semitic
region =Middle East andNorth Africa
familycolor = Afro-Asiatic
fam2 = Semitic
fam3 = West Semitic
child1 = Northwest Semitic
child2 = ArabicThe Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of
Semitic languages , comprising Arabic and Northwest Semitic (including Canaanite (Hebrew-Phoenician), Aramaic and Ugaritic).Different classification systems disagree on the precise structure of the group. The most common approach divides it into Arabic and Northwest Semitic, while
SIL Ethnologue hasSouth Central Semitic (including Arabic and Hebrew) vs. Aramaic.The main distinction between Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages is the presence of
broken plural s in the former. The majority of Arabic masculine non-human nouns form plurals in this manner (called inanimate plural), whereas almost all nouns in the Northwest Semitic languages form their plurals with a suffix. For example, the Arabic بيت "bayt" ("house") becomes بيوت "buyūt" ("houses"); the Hebrew בית "bayit" ("house") becomes בתים "battīm" ("houses").ee also
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Northwest Semitic languages
*Arabic language
*Aramaic language
*Hebrew language
*Ugaritic language
*Semitic Languages
*Proto-Semitic language References
*cite book|author=Sabatino Moscati|title=An Introduction to Comparative Grammar of Semitic Languages Phonology and Morphology|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=1980|id=ISBN 3-447-00689-7
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