The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly also North Africa, Malta ...

Is Hebrew a Semitic language?

Hebrew language, Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which it is often placed by scholars in a Canaanite subgroup.

Is Ethiopian a Semitic language?

Ethiopian Semitic (also Ethio-Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family.