| covers the "Semitic" or 'Aramita+ Amarinya set, part of the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental affinity; comprising 1 set of languages (= 24 outer languages) spoken by communities in Northern and Northeastern Africa and Western Asia, from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean: 12-A 'ARAMITA+ AMARINYA including 1 arterial language: 'Arabiyya Mashriqi with 'Arabiyya Maghribi (Eastern Arabic with Western Arabic) For certain reference-names in zone 12=, especially in the Arabic net [12=-AAC], diacritics have been used as follows: subscript dot / ţ, ḍ, ş/ for velarised emphatic consonants; / ħ / for the voiceless pharyngeal fricative; and overlining as in / ā / for long vowels. |