Northwest Semitic
Phoenician language family
Northwest Semitic is a branch of the Semitic language family comprising languages historically spoken in the Levant and surrounding regions.
The group includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, among others.
Linguists use the classification to distinguish these languages from Arabic and Ethiopian Semitic to the south and Akkadian to the east.
- Proto-SinaiticFirst alphabetic script
- HebrewSemitic language of Israel
- PhoenicianAncient Lebanese seafarer
- LevantEastern Mediterranean coastal region
- AramaicAncient Semitic language
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- Semitic LanguagesHebrew, Hebrew alphabet, Arabic, Aramaic, Amharic