Proto-Arabic is the name given to the hypothetical reconstructed ancestor of all the varieties of Arabic attested since the 9th century BC. There are two...

marks, boxes, or other symbols. Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common ancestor to the Semitic language family. There is no consensus...

Romanian Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Proto-Arabic Proto-Northeast Caucasian Proto-Uralic Proto-Finno-Ugric [ru] Proto-Finnic (Proto-Balto-Finnic) Proto-Samic...

Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the reconstructed proto-language from which all...

definite article spread areally among the Central Semitic languages and it would seem that Proto-Arabic lacked any overt marking of definiteness. Besides dialects...

most other proto-languages, Proto-Malayic was not attested in any prior written work. The most extensive study on the proto-language, Proto-Malayic: The...

The Arabic language family is divided into several categories which are: Old Arabic, the literary varieties, and the modern vernaculars. The genealogical...

All Arabic triptotes terminate in w regardless of their syntactic position or whether they are defined. Proto-Arabic language Nehmé 2020. "Arabic in Context...

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other...

the extinct forms of Andalusi Arabic and Siculo-Arabic. The Maltese language is believed to have its source in a language spoken in Muslim Sicily that...

Proto-Armenian is the earlier, unattested stage of the Armenian language which has been reconstructed by linguists. As Armenian is the only known language...

West Germanic proto-language did exist. But up until the 1990s, some scholars doubted that there was once a Proto-West Germanic proto-language which was ancestral...

Proto-Philippine language is a reconstructed ancestral proto-language of the Philippine languages, a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian languages which...

South Arabian language, as was once thought, but instead "nephews". Despite the name, they are not closely related to the Arabic language. Mehri: the largest...

Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including...

direct ancestor. Classical Arabic and vernacular varieties all developed from an unattested common ancestor, Proto-Arabic. The ISO 639-3 standard classifies...

Afroasiatic languages are considered indigenous to the African continent, including all those not belonging to the Semitic branch. Arabic, if counted...

Neolithic are uniquely triconsonantal. This implies a change in Proto-Semitic language structure concomitant with the transition to agriculture. In particular...

variously dated to the 12th and 15th centuries. Compared with Proto-Viet–Muong, the language had lost the voicing distinction on stop initials, giving rise...

more than one language has developed from the same proto-language, or 'mother language', those languages are said to be sister languages, members of the...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze Age. It...

the inscription was "proto-Canaanite" but cautioned that "[t]he differentiation between the scripts, and between the languages themselves in that period...

subsequent Malayic languages. Its ancestor, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, a descendant of the Proto-Austronesian language, began to break up by at least 2000 BCE...

in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print and mass...

Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic...

deriving from Proto-Iranian language *arya- (meaning "Aryan", i.e. "of the Iranians"), recognized as a derivative of Proto-Indo-European language *ar-yo-,...

not closely related. The Northwest Arabian Arabic dialects display several innovations from Proto-Arabic: The voiced reflex of *q ([g]) The gaháwah syndrome:...

Xianbei language, heavily influenced by the Proto-Turkic (later, the Lir-Turkic) language. The stages of historical Mongolic are: Pre-Proto-Mongolic...

the Arabic alphabet itself. Linguistics portal Languages portal List of Proto-Nubian reconstructions (Wiktionary) Rouchdy, Aleya (1980). "Languages in...