Afro-Asiatic family

Siculo-Arabic

c. 900 CE – 1300 CE Extinct

Siculo-Arabic (c. 900 CE – 1300 CE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Old Arabic → Classical Arabic → Siculo-Arabic.

See Siculo-Arabic on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
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Arabic of Sicily and Malta under Muslim rule (from 831 CE), derived from Ifriqiyan (Tunisian) Arabic. Died out in Sicily after the Norman conquest; survives as Maltese.

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. Old Arabicc. 800 BCE – 500 CE
  6. Classical Arabic500 CE – 1500 CE
  7. Siculo-Arabicc. 900 CE – 1300 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 6

Also descended from Classical Arabic.

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