History, Travel, and Culture

I've always been interested in languages and how they originated. Apparently, about 2000 BC, nomads had groups of Indo European languages.

By about 3000 BC Semitic languages are spoken over a large tract of desert territory from southern Arabia to the north of Syria. Several Semitic peoples play a prominent part in the early civilization of the region, from the Babyloniansand Assyriansto the Hebrewsand Phoenicians. And one Semitic language, Aramaic, becomes for a while the Lingua franca of...