Modern South Arabian Semitic-speaking peoples The following is a list of some modern and ancient Semitic-speaking peoples and nations: Central Semitic Ammonite speakers of Ammon Amorites 20th century BC Arabs Ancient North Arabian-speaking bedouins Arameans 16th to 8th centuries BC / Akhlames (Ahlamu) 14th century BC. Canaanite-speaking nations of the early Iron Age: Chaldea appeared in southern Mesopotamia c. 1000 BC and eventually disappeared into the general Babylonian population. Edomites Hadhramis Hebrews/Israelites founded the nation of Israel which later split into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The remnants of these people became the Jews and the Samaritans. Maltese Mandaeans Mhallami Moab Nabataeans Phoenicia founded Mediterranean colonies including Tyre, Sidon and ancient Carthage. The remnants of these people became the modern inhabitants of Lebanon. Ugarit, 14th to 12th centuries BC Nasrani (Syrian Christian) East Semitic Akkadian Empire ancient Semitic speakers moved into Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC and settled among the local peoples of Sumer. Babylonian Empire Assyrian Empire/Assyrians Ebla 23rd century BC South Semitic Kingdom of Aksum 4th century BC to 7th century AD Amhara people Argobba people Dahalik people Gurage people Harari people Mehri people Old South Arabian-speaking peoples Sabaeans of Yemen 9th to 1st centuries BC Silt'e people Soqotri people Tigrigna People Tigray people Tigre people Zay people Unknown Suteans 14th century BC Thamud 2nd to 5th centuries AD See also Proto-Semitic language Middle Bronze Age alphabets Notes References Bibliography Mustafa, Arafa Hussein. 1974. Analytical study of phrases and sentences in epic texts of Ugarit. (German title: Untersuchungen zu Satztypen in den epischen Texten von Ugarit). Dissertation. Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-University. [2002 edition: ] External links Semitic genealogical tree (as well as the Afroasiatic one), presented by Alexander Militarev at his talk "Genealogical classification of Afro-Asiatic languages according to the latest data" (at the conference on the 70th anniversary of Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Moscow, 2004; short annotations of the talks given there Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken plural Ancient snake spell in Egyptian pyramid may be oldest Semitic inscription Alexis Neme and Sébastien Paumier (2019), Restoring Arabic vowels through omission-tolerant dictionary lookup, Lang Resources & Evaluation, Vol 53, 1–65 pages Swadesh vocabulary lists of Semitic languages (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix) Afroasiatic languages Aramaic languages Arabic language Hebrew language Amharic language Ge'ez language Phoenician language Akkadian language