Arabic Languages

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Arabic Languages

	region	Arabia , Arab World
	familycolor	Afro-Asiatic
	fam2	Semitic
	fam3	West
	fam4	Central
	child1	Ancient North Arabian
	child2	Arabic Language

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/ Lihyan itic (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 .

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)

SEE ALSO

Arab (word)