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1. What are the 7 Semitic languages?
2. What is an example of Semitic language?
3. Is Arabic a Semitic language?

What are the 7 Semitic languages?

The Semitic language family consists of dozens of distinct languages and modern day dialects, but the major Semitic languages are Arabic, Amharic (spoken in Ethiopia), Tigrinya (spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea), Hebrew, Tigre (spoken in Sudan), Aramaic (spoken in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Iraq and Iran) and Maltese.

What is an example of Semitic language?

While Arabic and Hebrew are the most well known Semitic languages, they are, however, not the only ones. In fact, numerically, most Semitic languages are spoken across the Red Sea, in Ethiopia, where languages such as Amharic, and even lesser-known ones, such as Tigre and Tigrenya, are spoken.

Is Arabic a Semitic language?

Arabic language, Semitic language spoken in a large area including North Africa, most of the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. (See also Afro-Asiatic languages.)