Central Semitic languages
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| Central Semitic | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Middle East and North Africa |
| Genetic classification: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic |
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The Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of Semitic languages, of which the most prominent members are Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. Different classification systems disagree on the precise make up of the group, but it is based around the more accepted Northwest Semitic languages. The disagreement is usually on the relationship of Arabic (and Old North Arabian dialects) with the Northwest Semitic languages, and the other West Semitic languages.
The main distinction between Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages is the presence of broken plurals in the former. The majority of Arabic nouns form plurals in this manner, whereas almost all nouns in the Northwest Semitic languages form their plurals with a suffix (for example, Ar. بيت bayt 'house' → بيوت buyūt 'houses', He. בית bayit 'house' → בתים battîm 'houses').
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