The Semitic branch of Afro-Asiatic. Belongs here: Arabic and its regional varieties Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Sudanese Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Ge'ez, Akkadian, Syriac, and Maltese, the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet. Does not belong here: a non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic branch language such as Hausa or Somali, grouped under Other Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan Languages instead.
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1. Wikipedia: Semitic Languages
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They are spoken by more than 460 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
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