Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Proto-Ethio-Semitic

c. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Ethio-Semitic (c. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE) is a reconstructed Afro-Asiatic language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Ethio-Semitic.

See Proto-Ethio-Semitic on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, brought across the Red Sea from South Arabia in the early first millennium BCE or earlier; the timing is disputed. Splits into North (Ge'ez, Tigrinya, Tigre) and South Ethio-Semitic (Amharic and others).

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-Ethio-Semiticc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-West Semitic.

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