East Semitic languages

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The East Semitic languages form, alongside the West Semitic languages, one of two main branches of the Semitic languages . It consists of two extinct languages: Akkadian and Eblaite (which is sometimes also regarded as the dialect of Akkadian).

Akkadian and Eblaitische have against the other Semitic languages two common innovations that warrant it, they sum up to a ostsemitischen branch: They form the nominative plural of adjectives to -ut (eg Akkadian. Dannum "strong", plural dannūtum ) and have developed special dative forms for the pronominal suffixes .

literature

  • Alice Faber: Genetic Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages . In: Robert Hetzron (Ed.): The Semitic Languages . Routledge, London 1997. pp. 3-15.