Proto-Semitic Language: Semitic Languages, History of the Alphabet, Proto-Language, South Semitic, Akkadian Language, Proto-Afroasiatic Language, Ugaritic Language - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 6130331002 ISBN 13: 9786130331009

Publisher: Betascript Publishing, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Proto-Semitic is the hypothetical proto-language of the Semitic languages. The earliest attestations of a Semitic language are in Akkadian, dating to ca. the 23rd century BC and Eblaite, but earlier evidence of Akkadian comes from personal names in Sumerian texts. Researchers in Egypt also claim to have discovered Canaanite snake spells that date from between 2400 to 3000 B.C." The Semitic Urheimat is suggested by some to be in the Middle East more specifically, Kienast advocates the Arabian peninsula. The East and West Semitic branches are found in Mesopotamia and the Levant during the Bronze Age, while South Semitic speakers migrated to Africa before the 8th century BC via the Yemen gap. This is also supported by the presence of nouns in proto Semitic that seemingly make an African origin for the language impossible - ice, oak, horse and camel. The camel and horse did not arrive in Africa until nearly two thousand years after Semitic languages were being written in the Mesopotamia area."

Edition details

• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 6130331002
• ISBN 13: 9786130331009
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 116
• Editor: Surhone Lambert M., Timpledon Miriam T., Marseken Susan F.