Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Turoyo

c. 1200 CE – today Living

Turoyo (c. 1200 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Old Aramaic → Imperial and Middle Aramaic → Turoyo.

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ISO 639-3
tru
Glottocode
turo1239

Central Neo-Aramaic language of the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey, spoken today largely in the diaspora.

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. Proto-Northwest Semiticc. 2,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE
  6. Old Aramaicc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  7. Imperial and Middle Aramaic700 BCE – 700 CE
  8. Turoyoc. 1200 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Imperial and Middle Aramaic.

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