Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Proto-Central Semitic

c. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Central Semitic (c. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE) is a reconstructed Afro-Asiatic language. It has 24 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Central Semitic.

See Proto-Central Semitic on the interactive map

Hypothetical node uniting Northwest Semitic and Arabic, defined by shared innovations such as the prefix-conjugation imperfective. Some scholars also place Old South Arabian here.

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

Descendants 2

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-West Semitic.

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