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Afro-Asiatic

Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken by various communities from a large area in West Africa centered around Lake Chad (Chadic), all the way across North Africa (Berber) into Egypt (Egyptian), Ethiopia, and Somalia, and down the Great Rift Valley to the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (Cushitic / Omotic). The family crosses over into Western Asia (Semitic), and is also spoken in the Middle East through Palestine and Syria, down around the Arabian Peninsula into Yemen and Oman, and stretching into Iraq. Source

This page is for helpful links to websites which relate to the Arabic language - whether Classical, Modern or dialects. Please submit only websites closely related to the Arabic language itself, and not any website in Arabic.

Arabic

Welcome to the Arabic section of the: /Science/Social_Sciences/Languages_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages section of the Open Directory Project. Here, you'll find sites about Arabic as a language: history, linguistics, literature and how to learn Arabic. If you know or maintain a closely related site, please feel free to submit it for review. Other Arabic sites may fit better under World/Arabic/category - please check there as well.

Aramaic

Aramaic is a Semitic language, a group of languages known almost from the beginning of recorded human history. It is particularly closely related to Hebrew, and was written in a variety of alphabetic scripts. In fact, what is usually called "Hebrew" script is actually an Aramaic script. Aramaic was the language of administration communication by the Assyrian conquerors; it was also the official language for the Babylonian and Persian empires which followed. From India to Ethiopia between 700 ad 320 B.C.E., Aramaic held a position similar to that occupied by English today. The most important documents of this period are numerous papyri from Egypt and Palestine. Today, Aramaic survives as a spoken language in small communities in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Source

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Berber

Group of related languages of the Amazigh of North Africa. This category is for noncommercial and informative sites about the Berber family of languages. This includes scientific considerations, educational resources, and reference materials.

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If your site features a Non-English Dictionary, please send it to the appropriate language within that section of the Directory.

Coptic

The Coptic Language is the name used to refer to the last stage of the written Egyptian language. Coptic should more correctly be used to refer to the script rather than the language itself. Even though this script was introduced as far back as the 2nd century BC., it is usually applied to the writing of the Egyptian language from the first century AD. to the present day. Source

Cushitic Languages

Any material bearing on the languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Hebrew

This page is for helpful links to websites which relate to the Hebrew language - whether Biblical/Classical, or Modern. These sites may help teach Hebrew, discuss the Hebrew language, or be selling their original, Hebrew language course products, while offering a sample lesson. The submitted links and websites have been reviewed to the best of our ability, but the descriptions are not a product assessment.

This category aims to house helpful links to pages listing given Hebrew names and their meanings as lists or databases, together with related articles, for the purposes of understanding the Hebrew and its use. - Please submit any Judaica-sales sites relating to Hebrew names to the shopping category (baby blankets, name plates and the like). - Personal sites about your own name, family name (surname), or family tree should be submitted to Genealogy.

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