The Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of
Semitic languages, comprising
Arabic and
Northwest Semitic (including
Canaanite (
Hebrew),
Aramaic and
Ugaritic). Different classification systems disagree on the precise structure of the group. The most common approach divides it into Arabic and Northwest Semitic, while
SIL Ethnologue has
South Central Semitic (including Arabic and Hebrew) vs. Aramaic.The main distinction between Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages is the presence of
broken plurals in the former. The majority of Arabic nouns form plurals in this manner, whereas almost all nouns in the Northwest Semitic languages form their plurals with a
suffix (for example, Ar. بيت bayt 'house' → بيوت buyūt 'houses', He. בית bayit 'house' → בתים battîm 'houses').
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