Arabic languages
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| Arabic | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Arabia, Arab world |
| Genetic classification: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Arabic |
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The Arabic language family consists of
- The Arabic macrolanguage (ISO 639-3 ara), including
- the living varieties of Arabic,
- Classical Arabic and Standard Arabic,
- The various Judeo-Arabic languages.
- a number of closely related extinct dialects of pre-Islamic Arabia, summarized as Ancient or Old North Arabian (ISO 639-3 xna), including
- Safaitic,
- Dedanitic/Lihyanitic (Dedanite/Lihyanite),
- Thamudic,
- Hasaitic.
SIL Ethnologue unites Canaanite and Arabic in a South Central Semitic group together with Aramaic forming Central Semitic, but it is more common to unite Aramaic and Canaanite as Northwest Semitic.
[edit] Literature
- Lozachmeur, H., (ed.), (1995) Presence arabe dans le croissant fertile avant l'Hegire (Actes de la table ronde internationale Paris, 13 Novembre 1993) Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations. ISBN 286538 2540
- Macdonald, M.C.A., (2000) "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia" Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 11(1), 28–79
- Scagliarini, F., (1999) "The Dedanitic inscriptions from Jabal 'Ikma in north-western Hejaz" Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 29, 143-150 ISBN 2-503-50829-4
- Winnett, F.V. and Reed, W.L., (1970) Ancient Records from North Arabia (Toronto: University of Toronto)
[edit] See also
ru:Аравийские языки
