The Arabic language family consists of Classical Arabic and its descendants, includingThe various varieties of ArabicThe various Judeo-Arabic languagesMalteseOld or Ancient North Arabian, a number of closely related extinct dialects of pre-Islamic Arabia:Oasis North ArabianDumaiticTaymaniticDadaniticDispersed Oasis North ArabianSafaiticHismaicThamudicHasaiticEthnologue unites Canaanite and Arabic in a South Central Semitic group together with Aramaic forming Central Semitic, but it is more common to unite Aramaic and Canaanite as Northwest Semitic.