| 词条 | West Semitic languages |
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|name = West Semitic |region = Middle East |familycolor = Afroasiatic |fam2 = Semitic |child1 = Central Semitic |child2 = South Semitic |glotto = west2786 |glottorefname= West Semitic }} The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages. The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel.[1][2][3] The grouping,[4] supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard, divides the Semitic language family into two branches: Eastern and Western. The East Semitic languages consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages, while the remaining majority of Semitic languages form the West Semitic languages grouping. It consists of the clearly defined sub-groups: Modern South Arabian, Old South Arabian, Ethiopic, Arabic and Northwest Semitic (this including Hebrew, Aramaic and the extinct Amorite and Ugaritic languages). Ethiopic and South Arabian show particular common features, and are often grouped together as South Semitic. The proper classification of Arabic with respect to other Semitic languages is debated.{{cn|date=September 2015}} In older classifications, it is grouped with the South Semitic languages. However, Hetzron and Huehnergard connect it more closely with the Northwest Semitic languages, to form Central Semitic. Some Semiticists continue to argue for the older classification, based on the distinctive feature of broken plurals. Some linguists also argue that Eteocypriot was a Northwest Semitic language spoken in ancient Cyprus.{{cn|date=September 2015}} Footnotes1. ^[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SMzgBLT87MkC&pg=PA425#v=onepage&q&f=false The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, Chapter V], page 425 2. ^{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2603460/The_subgrouping_of_the_Semitic_languages|title= The subgrouping of the Semitic languages|journal=Language and Linguistics Compass|publisher= Blackwell Publishing Ltd|volume=2|issue=1|date=2008|pages=61–84|doi=10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00044.x|authorlink=Aaron D. Rubin|author=Aaron D. Rubin|quote=P. Haupt (1878) first recognized that the qatala past tense found in West Semitic was an innovation, and that the Akkadian prefixed past tense must be archaic. It was F. Hommel, however, who recognized the implications of this for the subgrouping of Semitic; cf. Hommel(1883: 63, 442; 1892: 92–97; 1926: 75–82).}} 3. ^Fritz Hommel, [https://archive.org/details/diesemitischenvo00homm Die semitischen Volker und Sprachen als erster Versuch einer Encyclopadie der semitischen Sprach- und Alterthums-Wissenschaft], (1883) 4. ^https://books.google.pl/books?id=fuenHN-iph0C&pg=PA283&lpg=PA283&dq=innovations+south+semitic+central+semitic+old+south+arabian&source=bl&ots=1dKwu5a6NZ&sig=f6--F_bQcomsk97Qzrp2uvIu8uA&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw5aGPs_PTAhXpJMAKHVt_CogQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=innovations%20south%20semitic%20central%20semitic%20old%20south%20arabian&f=false References
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