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Muslim Academy on 03 Sep 12Learn Arabic Language History. The Arabic language belongs to the Semitic language family. The members of this family have a recorded history going back thousands of years. The Semitic languages eventually took root and flourished in the Mediterranean Basin area, especially in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and in the coastal areas of the Levant. But where exactly the home area of "proto-Semitic" was located is still the object of dispute among scholars. Once, the Arabian Peninsula was thought to have been the "cradle" of proto-Semitic. But nowadays many scholars advocate the view that it originated somewhere in East Africa, probably in Somalia/Ethiopia. Both these areas are now dominated linguistically by the two youngest members of the Semitic language family: Arabic and Amharic, both of which emerged in the mid 4th century C.E.