Proto-Semitic language

Proto-Semitic
Reconstruction ofSemitic languages
Eraca. 4500–3500 BC
Reconstructed
ancestor
Lower-order reconstructions

Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common ancestor to the Semitic language family. There is no consensus regarding the location of the Proto-Semitic Urheimat: scholars hypothesize that it may have originated in the Levant, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, or northern Africa.[1]

The Semitic language family is considered part of the broader macro-family of Afroasiatic languages.