Introductory Chapters 1. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: John Huehnergard & Na'ama Pat-El 2. Semitic and Afro-Asiatic: Gene Gragg 3. Proto-Semitic: John Huehnergard 4. The Semitic Language Family: A Typological Perspective: Na'ama Pat-El Language Chapters 5. Akkadian: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee 6. Gz (Classical Ethiopic): Aaron Michael Butts 7. Tigre of Ginda: David L.
Elias 8. Tigrinya: Maria Bulakh 9. Amharic: Lutz Edzard 10. Gurage (Muher): Ronny Meyer 11. Mehri: Aaron D. Rubin 12. Soqotri: Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh 13. Ancient South Arabian: Anne Multhoff 14.
Safaitic: Ahmad Al-Jallad 15. Classical Arabic: Daniel Birnstiel 16. Levantine Arabic: Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga 17. Egyptian Arabic: Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer 18. Moroccan Arabic: Mike Turner 19. Ugaritic: Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita 20. The Canaanite Languages: Aren M. Wilson-Wright 21.
Pre-modern Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew: Aaron D. Hornkohl 22. Modern Hebrew: Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor 23. Samaritan Aramaic: Christian Stadel 24. Modern Western Aramaic: Steven E. Fassberg 25. Syriac: Na'ama Pat-El 26. Mandaic: C.
G. Häberl 27. Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: the Dialect of Alqosh: Eleanor Coghill.