Afroasiatic languages: South Semitic Division
South Semitic Division
To the South Semitic group belong the Semitic languages of Ethiopia, such as classical Ethiopic or Geez, Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic, and Harari. A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems
- The Chadic Languages
- The Cushitic and Omotic Languages
- The Berber Languages
- South Semitic Division
- West Semitic Division
- The Semitic Languages
- The Egyptian Languages
- Bibliography
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