شَجَرَة

Semitic Language Family Tree

Tap a language to see connected prophets (includes all sub-branches)

A prophet appears under a language for one of two reasons: the name originates from that language, or the prophet’s people likely spoke it. Some prophets appear under multiple languages. Mūsā, for example, appears under both Hebrew (where his name was transmitted) and Ancient Egyptian (where it likely originated). The tree structure follows Hetzron’s classification of the Semitic languages, which is the standard model used in most comparative grammars. The placement of Arabic under Central Semitic rather than South Semitic is debated among linguists, but this is the more widely accepted position.