Northwest Semitic languages

Northwest Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Levantine
Geographic; distribution:	concentrated in the Middle East
Linguistic classification:	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic; ; ; ;
Subdivisions:	Aramaic Canaanite Amorite (extinct) Samalian (extinct)

The Northwest Semitic languages are a branch of Central Semitic languages. They came from the Levant in the Middle East. They include the languages Hebrew and Aramaic.[1]

References

Aaron D. Rubin (2008). "The subgrouping of the Semitic languages". Language and Linguistics Compass. 2 (1): 61–84. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00044.x.

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