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Sources for new language listings:

  • Caplice, Richard: Introduction to Akkadian
  • Ungnad, Arthur: Akkadian Grammar

Ben Brumfield

Huehnergard's A Grammar of Akkadian also has an interesting chart that further subdivides the Semitic family:

  1. East Semitic
    1. Akkadian and Eblaite
  2. West Semitic
    1. Central Semitic
      1. Northwest Semitic
        1. Ugaritic
        2. Canaanite (including Hebrew)
        3. Aramaic
      2. North Arabian
        1. Arabic Dialects
    2. South Semitic
      1. South Arabian
        1. Old South Arabian Languages
      2. Ethiopian
        1. Ge'ez
        2. Amharic

I'd be willing to reorganize the article along these lines, but not until this is paraphrased (ideally by the addition of more language names).

Ben Brumfield

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