Semitic - Semitic-speaking Peoples

Semitic-speaking Peoples

The following is a list of ancient and modern Semitic speaking peoples.

• Mandaeans
• Akkadians (Assyrians/Babylonians) — migrated into Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC and amalgamate with non-Semitic Mesopotamian (Sumerian) populations into the Assyrians and Babylonians of the Late Bronze Age. The remnants of these people became the modern Assyrian Christians.
• Eblaites — 23rd century BC
• Chaldeans — appeared in southern Mesopotamia circa 1000 BC
• Aramaeans — 16th to 8th century BC / Akhlames (Ahlamu) 14th century BC The modern Syriac Christian population of Syria are largely of Aramean stock.
• Mhallami
• Ugarites, 14th to 12th centuries BC
• Suteans - 14th Century BC
• Canaanite language speaking nations of the early Iron Age:
  • Amorites — 20th century BC
  • Ammonites
  • Edomites
  • Amalekites
  • Hebrews/Israelites — founded the nation of Israel which later split into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The remnants of these people became the Jews and the Samaritans.
  • Moabites
  • Phoenicians — founded Mediterranean colonies including Carthage. The remnants of these people became the modern Maronites.
• Old South Arabian speaking peoples
  • Sabaeans of Yemen — 9th to 1st c. BC
• Shebans
• Ubarites
• Maganites
• Ethio-Semitic speaking peoples
  • Aksumites — 4th c. BC to 7th c. AD
• Arabs, Old North Arabian speaking Bedouins
  • Gindibu's Arabs 9th c. BC
  • Qadar tribe 7th century BC
  • Lihyanites — 6th to 1st c. BC
  • Thamud people — 2nd to 5th c. AD
  • Ghassanids — 3rd to 7th c. AD
• Nabataeans — Mix of Aramaiac and Arabic speakers.
  • Maltese