Proto-Semitic

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi bar-Khela,

Farsi is Iranian (Aryan)! <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> (It is an Indo-European language, not Semitic.)

Arabic retains many of the characteristic of the oldest Semitic language: Akkadian. (For that matter, so do Aramaic and Hebrew)

See: http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/ for more information on this language which was around for centuries before Abraham was born. (i.e., before Hebrew and Arabic even existed)

I don't know if it's the "most" archaic of the three, but it does retain many similiarities with Akkadian that seem very ancient.