What is Northwest Semitic languages?
{{Infobox language family |name=Northwest Semitic |altname=Levantine |region=concentrated in the [[Middle East]] |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]] |fam3=[[West Semitic languages|West Semitic]] |fam4=[[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]] |child1=[[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] |child2=[[Canaanite languages|Canaanite]] |child3=[[Amorite language|Amorite]] ([[extinct language|extinct]]) |child4=[[Samalian language|Samalian]] (extinct) |glotto=nort3165 |glottorefname=Northwest Semitic }} The '''Northwest Semitic''' languages are a branch of [[Central Semitic languages]]. They came from the [[Levant]] in the [[Middle East]]. They include the languages [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2603460|title= The subgrouping of the Semitic languages|journal=Language and Linguistics Compass|volume=2|issue=1|date=2008|pages=61–84|doi=10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00044.x|author=Aaron D. Rubin|author-link=Aaron D. Rubin}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Semitic languages]]