Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Afroasiatic tongues, Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac...extinct, although a dialect of Coptic continues...which embraced many dialects in the course of its...Phoenician, an early dialect of Canaanite, and an independent dialect of West Semitic. The...and the modern Arabic dialects, as well as the ancient...