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The Semitic language family is not part of the proto-indo-european language family. It's from the Afroasiatic family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_lang
by eigenspace 6mo ago
The Semitic language family is not part of the proto-indo-european language family. It's from the Afroasiatic family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages
- kevin_thibedeau 6mo agoPersian is PIE and had influence over semitic languages in cultural contact. The connection could be there.
- z500 6mo agoEgyptian had it, and although it's Afroasiatic it's not Semitic, so it must have gone back further than that.