The work offered to the reader, written by the outstanding Russian orientalist and philologist I.M. Dyakonov (1915-1999), is dedicated to the family of Semitic-Hamitic languages. The author is trying to base the classification on indicative data on the material convergence of the languages ​ ​ of this family in the areas of morphology of the pronoun, name and verb. Moreover, we will only talk about identifying the ratio between entire branches; within branches I.M. Dyakonov adopts the generally accepted classification with minor terminological corrections. The book is intended for a wide range of linguists and historians - scientists and graduate students, teachers and students of oriental, philological and historical faculties of universities.