ARABIC LANGUAGES

The 'Arabic' language family consists of

★ The Arabic macrolanguage (ISO 639-3 ara), including

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★ the living varieties of Arabic,

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★ Classical Arabic and Standard Arabic,

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★ The various Judeo-Arabic languages.

★ a number of closely related extinct dialects of pre-Islamic Arabia, summarized as 'Ancient' or 'Old North Arabian' (ISO 639-3 xna), including

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★ Safaitic,

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★ Dedanitic/Lihyanitic (Dedanite/Lihyanite),

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★ Thamudic,

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★ Hasaitic.
SIL Ethnologue unites Canaanite and Arabic in a 'South Central Semitic' group together with Aramaic forming Central Semitic, but it is more common to unite Aramaic and Canaanite as Northwest Semitic.

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Literature

★ Lozachmeur, H., (ed.), (1995) ''Presence arabe dans le croissant fertile avant l'Hegire (Actes de la table ronde internationale Paris, 13 Novembre 1993)'' Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations. ISBN 286538 2540

★ Macdonald, M.C.A., (2000) "Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia" ''Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy'' 11(1), 28–79

★ Scagliarini, F., (1999) "The Dedanitic inscriptions from Jabal 'Ikma in north-western Hejaz" ''Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies'' 29, 143-150 ISBN 2-503-50829-4

★ Winnett, F.V. and Reed, W.L., (1970) ''Ancient Records from North Arabia'' (Toronto: University of Toronto)

See also

★ Arab (word)