Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Old Aramaic

c. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE Extinct

Old Aramaic (c. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 5 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Central Semitic → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Old Aramaic.

See Old Aramaic on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
oar

Earliest attested Aramaic, from inscriptions of the Syrian city-states (e.g. Tell Fekheriye, Sefire). Precedes the Imperial Aramaic of the Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid empires.

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. Proto-Northwest Semiticc. 2,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE
  6. Old Aramaicc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Northwest Semitic.

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