Ethiosemitic languages

The Ethiosemitic languages (also called Ethiopian , Ethiopian-Semitic, or Afro -Semitic languages ) are a group of languages ​​spoken in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea . Together with the Old South Arabic languages , they form the subgroup of the Southwest Semitic languages within the Semitic languages (although the membership of the Old South Arabic languages ​​in this subgroup is not certain).

The Ethiosemitic languages ​​include a. Amharic , Tigrinya , Tigre , the Gurage languages, Harari and the extinct old Ethiopian .

The Ethiosemitic languages ​​are divided into two main groups:

• the North Ethiosemitic languages and
• the South Ethiosemitic languages .

swell

• Ethnologue entry for Ethiosemitic languages
• Phylogenetic analyzes

literature

• Stefan Weninger: Ethio-Semitic in General. In: Stefan Weninger et al. (eds.): The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. DeGruyter - Mouton, Berlin 2011, pp. 1114-1123.