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 .
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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.