logo

Video encyclopedia

Northwest Semitic languages

1:39:51

Ancient Semitic I: The Semitic Languages - A Brief Introduction

8:50

History of the Semitic Languages

8:42

The Semitic Family and the Journey of Hebrew - Jewish Languages Part א.

13:12

Strange Similarities Between Celtic & Semitic Languages!

12:17

Northwest Semitic languages

Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It would have emerged from Common Semitic in the Early Bronze Age. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating to the Late Bronze Age, which by the time of the Bronze Age collapse are joined by Old Aramaic, and by the Iron Age by the Canaanite languages.
  • Types 

  • Historical development 

  • Bibliography