셈어의 발달과 분화에 관한 연구-아랍어를 중심으로-

Abstract

The Semitic language family has the longest recorded history of any linguistic group. The Akkadian language is first attested in cuneiform writing on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) from the mid-third millennium B.C. and Semitic languages continue to be spoken in the Middle East and in northeastern Africa today. But, lacking of the written materials and systematic research about Semitic languages, a study on the development and diversification of semitic languages is still the beginning stage in Korea. Also, Almost nothing have been carried a study on relationship of the ancient kingdoms to their languages in Arabic Peninsular. In this article, I deal the development and diversification of semitic languages centering around Arabic language. I expect that this research will be the Arabic historical linguistics in the Arabia Peninsula.