Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Proto-West Semitic

c. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-West Semitic (c. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE) is a reconstructed Afro-Asiatic language. It has 31 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic.

See Proto-West Semitic on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of West Semitic (Central Semitic, Ethio-Semitic, Old and Modern South Arabian), as opposed to East Semitic (Akkadian, Eblaite). Internal subgrouping, especially of the South Semitic languages, is debated.

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

Descendants 3

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Semitic.

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