Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Old Arabic

c. 800 BCE – 500 CE Extinct

Old Arabic (c. 800 BCE – 500 CE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 9 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Central Semitic → Old Arabic.

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Pre-Islamic Arabic attested in Safaitic, Hismaic, Nabataean-script and early Arabic-script inscriptions. Ancestral to Classical Arabic and the modern dialects.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  5. Old Arabicc. 800 BCE – 500 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Central Semitic.

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