Languages of Middle East and the Caucasus - geography.
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Languages of Middle East and the Caucasus - geography. Overview For thousands of years, people in this region have spoken Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, such as Hebrew, and languages in the Indo-European family, such as Persian, a member of the family's Iranian branch. Some of the Caucasian languages, spoken in the linguistically diverse Caucasus region, have no known linguistic relatives and probably have an even more ancient history here. About 1,400 years ago, Arabic, a Semitic language formerly confined to the Arabian Peninsula, spread north along with the religion of Islam (see Middle East Map Trek), replacing other Semit...
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