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iyah360, maybe this will help:

semitic languages, the southern branch;

the southern semitic branch is sometimes called the arabic group because the arabic language is its most important representative. under arabic may be included ancient, or classical, arabic; its descendant, modern arabic; and southern arabic, often improperly called HIMyaritic, including the closely related dialects of sabaean and minaean. the greatest work in ancient arabic is the koran, composed by mohammed, although a few poems are older than this sacred work. printed modern arabic is substantially the same wherever it is found and does not differ greatly from the ancient language. the spoken language, however, is divided into many dialects, of which the most important are those of syria, egypt, mesopotamia, tunis, malta and oman, and zanzibar. under the general head of modern arabic may be included the extensive arabic literature from soon after the time of mohammed to the present time. sabaean and minaean are found in inscriptions, chiefly in southern arabia. these are of uncertain date, although it is now often claimed that the earliest minaean inscriptions are earlier than 1000 bc(hyksos-people of the sea period), while the oldest sabean are somewhat later.

modern representatives of these dialects are found in the present dialects of the same region, of which little is known. two of them are the mahri and socotri. included in the southern semitic branch is also ethiopic, or more properly geez. this was probably a descendant of sabaean. the ancient ethiopic was the language of abyssinia. it closely resembles the arabic dialects, sharing withe them some of their most characteristic features, while in many other respects it differs greatly from them. it was the spoken language of abyssinia until approximately the 13th century a.d. ALTHOUGH IT IS NO LONGER USED IN DAILY SPEECH(dead), IT IS STILL THE LITurGICAL LANGUAGE OF THE ORTHODOX CHurCH OF ETHIOPIA. ethiopic is a semitic language,related to arabic and hebrew. the name geez is derived from the phrase lesana geez, meaning 'language of science'. ethiopic is also called the 'language of books'. in roots, structure and grammatical forms, it resembles the ancient south arabian dialect of the HIMyarites, who disappeared from the arabian peninsula about the time of mohammed. this favors the hypothesis of some historians that modern ethiopians are descendants of colonists from arabia.

the alphabet of ethiopic also greatly resembles that of the himyarites, as found in their remaining inscriptionsl it consists of 26 consonants and 7 vowels. twenty-four of the letters may be trace in the arabic alphabet; few of them show a resemblance to the phoenician. one third of all the roots of ethiopic can be traced distinctly in arabic, and many other words may be presumed to be of the same origin. ethiopic has 10 conjugations, 8 of which answer to those of arabic. in the formation of nouns, ethiopic most resembles hebrew, but it has superfluous final vowels, modified in certain, in which it is analogous to arabic.
the earliest known literature comes from about 500 a.d. MOST OF THE LITERATURE CONSISTS OF TRANSLATIONS FROM OTHER LANGUAGES. the most important documents are the translation of a part of the bible, made about 500 a.d., and the apocryphal book of EUnoch, which is a translation from a lost original. modern representatives of the language in the same region are the tigre, the tigrina and , withe extensive incorporation of foreign elements, the amharic, together withe dialects related to the amharic, such as the harari and burague.

some scholars class the egyptian language as semitic. it seems evident, however, that it is not but that very early in prehistoric times it was subjected to strong semitic influences. DOUBTLESS THESE INFLUENCES CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO INVADERS FROM ASIA.

iyah360, can you state what percentage of enslaved amoricans came from the red sea area? 5%

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