Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Proto-Semitic

c. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Semitic (c. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE) is a reconstructed Afro-Asiatic language. It has 33 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic.

See Proto-Semitic on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the Semitic branch — East Semitic (Akkadian) and West Semitic (Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic, etc.). Likely originated in the Levant or Arabian peninsula.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Afro-Asiatic.

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