Editing Semitic languages (section)

===Central Semitic===
* [[Amorites]]
* [[Arabs]]
** [[Alawites]]
** [[Ancient North Arabian]]-speaking [[bedouin]]s
** [[Itureans]]
** [[Nabataeans]]
** [[Tayy]]
** [[Thamud]]{{snd}}2nd to 5th centuries AD
* [[Arameans]]{{snd}}an ancient Northwest Semitic people. They had various kingdoms and city-states and were historically organized in tribal structures.
** [[Ahlamu]]
** [[Terms for Syriac Christians#Aramean identity|Arameans (Syriacs)]]{{snd}}a minority ethnic group in the [[Qalamoun Mountains|Qalamoun mountains]] who still speak [[Western Aramaic languages|Western Aramaic]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Abū al-Faraj ʻIshsh |title=اثرنا في الايقليم السوري |publisher=Al-Maṭbaʻah al-Jadīdah |page=56 |language=Arabic |quote=السريان في معلولا وجبعدين ولا يزال الأهلون فيها يتكلمون}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=iنصر الله، إلياس أنطون |title=إلياس أنطون نصر الله في معلولا |publisher=لينين |page=45 |language=Arabic |quote=... معلولا السريان منذ القديم ، والذين ثبتت سريانيتهم بأدلة كثيرة هم وعين التينة وبخعا وجبعدين فحافظوا على لغتهم وكتبهم أكثر من غيرهم . وكان للقوم في تلك الأيام لهجتان ، لهجة عاميّة وهي الباقية الآن في معلولا وجوارها ( جبعدين وبخعا ) ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Rafik Schami |title=Märchen aus Malula |date=25 July 2011 |publisher=Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Company KG |isbn=9783446239005 |page=151 |language=German |quote=Ich kenne das Dorf nicht, doch gehört habe ich davon. Was ist mit Malula?‹ fragte der festgehaltene Derwisch. >Das letzte Dorf der Aramäer< lachte einer der…}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Yaron Matras |author2=Jeanette Sakel |title=Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective |date=2007 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=9783110199192 |page=185 |doi=10.1515/9783110199192 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110199192/html |language=English |quote=The fact that nearly all Arabic loans in Ma'lula originate from the period before the change from the rural dialect to the city dialect of Damascus shows that the contact between the Aramaeans and the Arabs was intimate… |access-date=1 May 2024 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526080929/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110199192/html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Dr. Emna Labidi |title=Untersuchungen zum Spracherwerb zweisprachiger Kinder im Aramäerdorf Dschubbadin (Syrien) |date=2022 |publisher=LIT |isbn=9783643152619 |page=133 |url=https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-15261-9 |language=German |quote=Aramäer von Ǧubbˁadīn |access-date=1 May 2024 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526080935/https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-15261-9/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Prof. Dr. Werner Arnold |author2=P. Behnstedt |title=Arabisch-aramäische Sprachbeziehungen im Qalamūn (Syrien) |date=1993 |publisher=Harassowitz |isbn=9783447033268 |page=42 |language=German |quote=Die arabischen Dialekte der Aramäer}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Prof. Dr. Werner Arnold |author2=P. Behnstedt |title=Arabisch-aramäische Sprachbeziehungen im Qalamūn (Syrien) |date=1993 |publisher=Harassowitz |isbn=9783447033268 |page=5 |language=German |quote=Die Kontakte zwischen den drei Aramäer-dörfern sind nicht besonders stark.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Prof. Dr. Werner Arnold |title=Lehrbuch des Neuwestaramäischen |date=2006 |publisher=Harrassowitz |isbn=9783447053136 |page=133 |url=https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_978-3-447-05313-6.ahtml |language=German |quote=Aramäern in Ma'lūla |access-date=1 May 2024 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526080933/https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_978-3-447-05313-6.ahtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Prof. Dr. Werner Arnold |title=Lehrbuch des Neuwestaramäischen |date=2006 |publisher=Harrassowitz |isbn=9783447053136 |page=15 |language=German |quote=Viele Aramäer arbeiten heute in Damaskus, Beirut oder in den Golfstaaten und verbringen nur die Sommermonate im Dorf.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://friendsofmaaloula.de/en/ | title=Hilfe für das Aramäerdorf Maaloula e.V. &#124; an aid project in Syria | access-date=1 December 2023 | archive-date=16 January 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116150614/https://friendsofmaaloula.de/en/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Canaanite languages|Canaanite-speaking]] nations of the early Iron Age:
** [[Ammon|Ammonites]]
** [[Edom|Edomites]]{{snd}}appeared in Transjordan between 11th to 2nd centuries BCE. Eventually assimilated into Jewish population during Hasmonean conquest.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Weitzman |first=Steven |date=1999 |title=Forced Circumcision and the Shifting Role of Gentiles in Hasmonean Ideology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1510155 |journal=The Harvard Theological Review |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=37–59 |doi=10.1017/S0017816000017843 |jstor=1510155 |s2cid=162887617 |issn=0017-8160 |access-date=28 December 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526080933/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1510155 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
** [[Hebrews]]/[[Israelites]]{{snd}}founded the nation of [[History of ancient Israel and Judah|Israel]] which later split into the Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Israel]] and [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]]. 
*** [[Jews]]
*** [[Samaritans]]
** [[Moab|Moabites]]
** [[Phoenicia|Phoenicians]]{{snd}}founded Mediterranean colonies including [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]], [[Sidon]] and [[ancient Carthage]]/[[Punics]]. The remnants of these people became the modern inhabitants of Lebanon.
* [[Chaldea|Chaldeans]]{{snd}}appeared in southern Mesopotamia {{circa|1000 BC}} and eventually disappeared into the general Babylonian population.
* [[Druze]]
* [[Maltese people|Maltese]]
* [[Mandaeans]]
* [[Maronites]]
* [[Mhallami]]
* [[Samalian|Samalians]]
* [[Ugarit|Ugarites]]{{snd}}14th to 12th centuries BC