• The Indo-Semitic hypothesis maintains that a genetic relationship exists between Indo-European and Semitic and that the Indo-European and the Semitic language...
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  • The Atlantic languages of Semitic or "Semitidic" (para-Semitic) origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann...
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  • influence of Indo-European languages (Sicilian for Maltese, various languages for Hebrew). An emphatic labial *ṗ occurs in some Semitic languages, but it is...
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    The Semitic languages comprise a fairly distinct linguistic family, a fact appreciated long before the relationship of the Indo-European languages was...
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    The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia...
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    Kartvelian, Indo-European and Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the...
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    Language (book) Indo-European copula Indo-European sound laws Indo-European studies Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Eurasiatic languages...
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    Eurasiatic languages Indo-Semitic languages Laryngeal theory Nostratic languages Ural–Altaic languages Uralic–Yukaghir languages Uralo-Siberian languages Kortlandt...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa...
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    The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...
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    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...
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    term "Hamito-Semitic" for the Afro-Asiatic languages. In English, Indo-German was used by J. C. Prichard in 1826 although he preferred Indo-European. In...
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    as a written language. The major families in terms of numbers are Indo-European, specifically Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages in South Asia;...
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  • The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root)...
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    Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and...
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    that these languages spread from a "refuge" area at the Last Glacial Maximum. Indo-Semitic languages Indo-Uralic languages Nostratic languages Proto-Human...
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    Hermann Möller (category Linguists of Indo-Semitic languages)
    for his work in favor of a genetic relationship between the Indo-European and Semitic language families and his version of the laryngeal theory. Möller grew...
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    Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe–Kwadi languages are spoken principally in Namibia and Botswana. Indo-European...
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  • satisfactory way of representing the development of the Semitic languages (contrary to Indo-European languages, which spread over a wide area and were usually...
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  • appear to have a Sumerian or Semitic origin. Igor Dyakonov and Vladislav Ardzinba proposed a different term, "banana languages", based on a characteristic...
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    Semitic ethnic minorities speak languages belonging to the separate Afro-Asiatic family, with the Hindustani and British residents speaking languages...
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  • Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Afroasiatic languages are descended...
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    most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families. Still smaller groups — such as Basque (language isolate), Semitic languages (Maltese,...
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    people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across...
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    𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken...
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  • Somalia) Languages spoken by the country's ethnic minorities include: Afroasiatic languages Cushitic Rendille, 60,000 speakers in 2015 Semitic Arabic Indo-European...
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  • Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages spoken in Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. All surviving Celtic languages are in...
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  • partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location. Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Cushitic Proto-Berber...
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    the Proto-Indo-European language formed mainly from a base of languages spoken by Eastern European hunter-gathers with influences from languages of northern...
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  • Turanian is an obsolete language-family proposal subsuming most of the languages of Eurasia not included in Indo-European, Semitic and Chinese. During the...
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