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| | Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A truly comprehensive account of "Semitic" religions would include the polytheistic religions (such as the religions of Adad, Hadad) that flourished in the Middle East before the Abrahamic religions, but because they existed before the Abrahamic religions they are generally not called or thought of as "Semetic religions". | | | The word "Semitic" is an adjective derived from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), or more precisely from the Greek form of that name, namely Σημ (Sēm); the noun form referring to a person is Semite. | | | In a religious context, the term Semitic can refer to the religions associated with the speakers of these languages: thus Judaism, Christianity and Islam are often described as "Semitic religions," though the term Abrahamic religions is more commonly used today. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic
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| | semitic - Wiktionary |
| | From the English Semite, an 18th century ethnological label derived from the Greek Σημ, Sēm, from the German semitisch, from the Hebrewשֵׂם, Šēm Shem, the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. | | | Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al. | | | Relating (biblically) to descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah. |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Semitic
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| | Semites, Semitic Religion - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
| | The words "Semites," "Semitic," do not occur in the Bible, but are derived from the name of Noah's oldest son, Shem (Genesis 5:32; 6:10; 9:18,23; 10:1,21; 11:10; 1 Chronicles 1). | | | Assyria was racially purely Semitic, but her laws, customs, literature, and many of her gods were acquired from Babylonia; to such an extent was this true that we are indebted to the library of the Assyrian Ashurbanipal for much that we know of Babylonian religion, literature and history. | | | The historic Babylonians, e.g., were Semites; yet they dispossessed an earlier non-Semitic people, and were themselves frequently invaded by other races, such as the Hittites, and even the Egyptians. |
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http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7806
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | At least some of the Semitic peoples of Ethiopia originally moved there from the Arabian peninsula, and the writing system still used by all of the Ethiopian languages is based on the South Arabian script of the immigrants. | | | The peoples that have spoken or speak one of the Semitic languages as their main language are known as Semitic peoples. | | | Aramaic spread with tremendous speed, and by the 6th century BC was being used as the administrative language and lingua franca of the entire Middle East, all the way from Afghanistan in the Persian Empire to Egypt. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES |
| | The Arabs are also supposed to display the Semitic character in its purest form, and their language is, on the whole, nearer the original Semitic than are the languages of the cognate races. | | | It is not quite certain whether all the Semitic languages originally had the hardest of the gutturals gh and kh in exactly the same places that they occupy in Arabic. | | | This supposition was founded on the book of Genesis, according to which several of the Semitic nations are descended from Arphaxad, i.e. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm
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| | Semites |
| | B Lewis, Semites and Anti Semites (1987); J Morgenstern, Rites of Birth, Marriage, Death, and Kindred Occasions among the Semites (1966); S Moscati, Ancient Semitic Civilizations (1957); W R Smith, The Religion of the Semites (1890). | | | The ancient Semitic populations were pastoral Nomads who several centuries before the Christian Era were migrating in large numbers from Arabia to Mesopotamia, the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Nile River delta. | | | Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/semites.htm
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| | SUMER AND SUMERIAN - LoveToKnow Article on SUMER AND SUMERIAN |
| | With the exception of some very ancient texts, the Sumerian literature, consisting largely of religious material such as hymns and incantations, shows a number of Semitic loanwords and grammatical Semitisms, and in many cases, although not always, is quite patently a translation of Semitic ideas by Semitic priests into the formal religious Sumerian language. | | | This etymological study of Sumerian is attended with incalculable difficulties, because nearly all the Sumerian texts which we possess are written in an idiom which is quite evidently under the influence of Semitic. | | | Scholars of this opinion believe that this language, which has been arbitrarily called " Akkadian" in England and " Sumerian" on the European continent and in America, was primitively the speech of the pre-Semitic inhabitants of the Euphratean region who were conquered by the invading Semites. |
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http://55.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SU/SUMER_AND_SUMERIAN.htm
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| | Semitic Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Most commonly, it is used to refer to speakers of Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Amharic. | | | It should also be noted that Coptic, Berber, Somali, and related languages are members of other subgroups in the Afro-Asiatic language family, not of the Semitic subgroup. | | | Semitic is an adjective that describes things originating from the Asian Middle East. |
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http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic.html
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| | Afroasiatic languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | To the South Semitic group belong the Semitic languages of Ethiopia, such as classical Ethiopic or Geez, Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic, and Harari. | | | The existence of the Semitic languages in W Asia is explained by assuming that African Semitic speakers migrated from E Africa to W Asia in very ancient times. | | | The Semitic languages of Ethiopia are classified as North Ethiopic (to which classical Ethiopic, Tigre, and Tigrinya belong) and South Ethiopic (consisting of Amharic, Harari, Gurage, and others). |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Afroasia_TheBerberLanguages.asp
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| | Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one |
| | The Semitic languages are brought nearer first of all not to the Indo-European languages but to Hamitic. | | | It is interesting that in many Semitic languages uvular ḫ, ġ (especially ġ) and pharyngeal ḥ, ʕ merge, and sometimes the uvular q is replaced with the glottal stop ʔ (so in the modern Egyptian dialect of Arabic) or with the velar k (so in some varieties of modern Hebrew). | | | It is interesting that in the Semitic languages we can find not only almost all counterparts of the IE ablaut, but also the function of particular alternations seems to be similar in some cases. |
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http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/lingwen/iesem1.html
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| | The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria |
| | A time at last came, however, when the influence of the Semitic inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria was not to be gainsaid, and from that moment, the development of their religion took another turn. | | | In all probably this augmentation of Semitic religious influence was due to the increased numbers of the Semitic population, and at the same period the Sumero- Akkadian language began to give way to the Semitic idiom which they spoke. | | | Besides Babylonia and Assyria, he was also worshipped in other parts of the Semitic east, especially at Harran, to which city Abraham migrated, scholars say, in consequence of the patron-deity being the same as at Ur of the Chaldees, where he had passed the earlier years of his life. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/rbaa.htm
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| | Pre-Islamic Arabic Culture |
| | It is a great irony of history, then, that the most influential of Semitic cultures would not come from an emigrant people, but from Semites living in the very heart of their origin place. | | | Originating from the Arabian peninsula, the Semitic people are responsible for teh first civilizations, three major world relgions, and a set of cultural practices that have been more globalized or universalized than any other peoples, including the Chinese and Europeans. | | | This last period of Semitic history would be its greatest and turn it into what is perhaps the most significant culture of human history. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/PRE.HTM
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| | Semitic languages |
| | Semitic (western Asia): Akkadian, Aramaic, South Arabic, Arabic, Hebrew, Eblaite, Amorite, Maltese, Ugaritic, Amharic, Canaanite, Phoenician | | | Section from Chapter 5 of John Heise's `Akkadian language', about Semitic languages in general. | | | Akkadian is a Semitic language, belonging to the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, also called Hamito-semitic language. |
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http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html
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| | Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures |
| | An avid collector of books, manuscripts and artifacts, his library furnished the basis for the present libraries of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures, and the Institute of Christian Oriental Research: the Semitics/ICOR Library. | | | SEM 709, 710 Northwest Semitic Inscriptions (3, 3) - Introduction to epigraphic method, paleography, and philology of ancient inscriptions in Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, and related languages. | | | P.T. Daniels and W. Bright (1995): articles on Semitic epigraphic writing; others. |
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http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/semitics
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| | Semitic languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Modern Hebrew, the standard language of Israel, is also a Semitic language. | | | Such modern languages as Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong to the Semitic language group. | | | A language family that covers a broad geographical region and a vast historical period, the Semitic language group is part of an even larger language family known as Afro-Asiatic, or Hamito-Semitic. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066720
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Semitic Epigraphy |
| | We shall begin with the branches which belong to the group of North Semitic languages. | | | The next section of this article will deal with inscriptions which belong to the South Semitic languages. | | | From a palaeographic and historical standpoint this inscription (now at, the Louvre) is the most valuable monument of Semitic epigraphy. |
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| | The History of Aramaic |
| | This continued to be so until Aramaic was superseded by a sister Semitic tongue, Arabic, about the 13th century A.D. to the 14th century A.D., when Arabic supplanted Aramaic after the Arab conquest in the 7th Century. | | | Before concluding, one more vital aspect of the Aramaic language needs to be mentioned and that is its use as the major Semitic tongue for the birth and spread of spiritual and intellectual ideas in and all over the Near East. | | | It was employed by the great Semitic empires, Assyria and Babylon. |
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| | Sembase |
| | Note too that doubling the second radical, which is universal in Semitic and common in Egyptian, is part and parcel with the use of triliteral roots (i.e., it is the second of three that is doubled). | | | And when known to be Semitic, one does not know that it was written nearly as it was spoken at the time. | | | There are many living Semitic linguistic communities today (the Modern Arabic dialects, Amharic and other languages in Ethiopia, a number of dialects of Modern Aramaic, Modern Hebrew and modern South Arabian languages in Yemen and Oman). |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Opinion Semites and anti-Semites, that is the question |
| | In this context, languages came to be organised into "Indo-European" and "Semitic", etc. The philologists claimed that Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, etc., were "Semitic" languages, even though philologists could never find a parent Semitic language from which they all derived. | | | But this is different from the spurious claim that "Arabs cannot be anti-Semitic because they are Semites." There are Arabs today who are anti- Jewish, and they borrow their anti-Jewish rhetoric not from the Palestine experience but from European rhetorics of anti-Semitism. | | | While oppression of, discrimination against, and hatred of communities of Jews qua Jews are found in many periods of European history, the basis for this hatred is different from modern anti-Semitism, as its inspirational sources are not rational science and biology or Enlightenment philology, but religious and other political and economic considerations that scapegoated Jews. |
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| | Arab Myths |
| | Consequently, Ishmael was a Semite only on his father's side, but by his mother's lineage he was Egyptian, and the sons of Qeturah were surely Semitic after their father Avraham, but we do not know where did their mother come from. | | | In that period, they absorbed Semitic cultures like the Arameans and the Idumeans, and the Nabatean language is the oldest one that may be defined as "Arabic", though many scholars disagree. | | | Arabs are the most recent of all Semitic peoples according to their appearance in history. |
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http://www.imninalu.net/myths-Arabs.htm
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| | Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach" |
| | A lingua franca based on "Cushomotic" syntax (i.e., verb-final) and Semitic lexicon was being used for communication in the ranks and among many of the Agew peasants of Amhara. | | | In short, a complicated diglossic situation had been created, with the ruling elite speaking a slowly changing Semitic tongue out of old Aksum, the military ranks using a creole based on Semitic (plus use of their own native tongues) and the peasantry using the creole and also Agew. | | | As the Agew slowly began to fuse with their conquerors, and military and Orthodox Christian missionary campaigns extended ever further - west, south, and east, other linguistic groups were added to the creole brew and it was shifting, but ever based on Semitic lexicon and Cushomotic syntax. |
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| | The Semitic New Testament |
| | Trimm is in the process of translating a Semitic New Testament based on Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts which he believes to be source documents. | | | Trimm's Semitic New Testament, there will be considerable interest on the part of these ministries, which will promote the new bible as a preferable alternative to the Greek-based New Testament traditionally used by Christians. | | | Aramaic is a Semitic language, closely related to both Hebrew and Arabic. |
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http://watch.pair.com/peshitta.html
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| | hmmvoc.doc |
| | Motivation Henceforth we shall focus on Hebrew as a typical example of a Semitic language. | | | The Semitic languages, on the other hand, have a morphology that has been called nonlinear (or nonconcatenative). | | | The Indo-European languages have a morphology that is markedly different from the Semitic languages. |
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| | Hamito-Semitic languages |
| | The existence of the Semitic languages in W Asia is explained by assuming that the Semites of Africa migrated from E Africa to W Asia in very ancient times. | | | Traditionally, the Hamito-Semitic language family is said to have two subfamilies: Semitic and Hamitic. | | | Although some scholars regard Hamitic and Semitic as two distinct language families, they possess a number of grammatical similarities and have a larger common vocabulary than borrowing would account for. |
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| | Semitic gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As Semitic itself is a rough, categorical term, the definitive bounds of the term "Semitic gods" are likewise only approximate. | | | A topic of particular interest is the transition of Semitic polytheism into our contemporary understanding of monotheism by way of the god El, a name of god Judaism and cognate to Islam's Allah. | | | Semitic gods refers to the gods or deities of peoples generally classified as speaking a Semitic language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_gods
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| | Semitic - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include Semitic: anti semitic, hamito semitic, semitic languages, hamito semitic languages, semitic speaking, more... | | | adjective: of or relating to the group of Semitic languages ( | | | Semitic : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=Semitic&ls=a
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| | Proto-Semitic Language Roots Project |
| | Proto-Semitic refers to the ancient Semitic language used by Shem, the son of Noah, and his descendents. | | | From this original Proto-Semitic language is derived all the Semitic languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Phonecian, Akkadian, Moabite, Amorite and others. | | | The purpose of this project is to document the existence and use of the Parent/Child Root System of the Proto-Semitic Language. |
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| | Semitic Transliterator in Unicode |
| | In addition to transliterating Semitic languages and Greek, the following languages can be typed with the Semitic Transliterator in Unicode transliteration fonts: | | | Here's what others are saying about Semitic Transliterator in Unicode fonts: | | | For language fonts covering the scripts (alphabets) of the languages whose transliteration is supported by Semitic Transliterator in Unicode, see the following: |
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http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm
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| | The Semitic Etymological Dictionary |
| | Lecturer in Bible and Semitic Languages: Russian State University for the Humanities, JUM | | | Area of research: Semitics; Bible Studies; commented Biblical translation into Russian. | | | The authors of the Semitic Etymological Dictionary are working on a reconstruction of the mother tongue of all Semitic languages, Proto-Semitic, a language spoken four millennia before C. by a highly advanced population of West Asia. |
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http://www.jum.ru/finproj/semetimdic.htm
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| | Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The word "Semitic" is an adjective derived from the Greek Σημ (Sēm), of Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21); the noun form referring to a person is Semite. | | | In a religious context, the term Semitic can refer to the religions associated with the speakers of these languages: thus Judaism, Christianity and Islam are often described as "Semitic religions," though the term Abrahamic religions is more commonly used today. | | | The concept of a "Semitic" peoples is derived from Biblical accounts of the origins of the cultures known to the ancient Hebrews. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic
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