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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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic   (1195 words)

  
 semitic - Wiktionary
From the English Semite, an 18th century ethnological label derived from the Greek Σημ, Sēm, from the German semitisch, from the Hebrew שֵׂם, 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 (biblically) to descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Semitic   (149 words)

  
 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).
Because the Semite used the figure of the rock (Deuteronomy 32:4,18,30) in describing God, or poetically conceived of the storm-cloud as Yahweh's chariot (Psalms 104:3), we must not be led into believing that his religion was a savage animism, or that Yahweh of Israel was only the Zeus of the Greeks.
It was pronouncedly theistic; not that other religions do not affirm a god; but theism of the Semites was such as to give their religion a unique place among all others.
http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7806   (2853 words)

  
 Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
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.
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.
http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html   (2729 words)

  
 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.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm   (19947 words)

  
 Semites
A Semite is someone descended from Shem, the eldest son of Noah.
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).
So all Hebrews are Semites, but not all Semites are Hebrews.
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/semites.htm   (400 words)

  
 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.
In view of the many evidences of the linguistic character of Sumerian as opposed to the one fact that the language had engrafted upon it a great number of evident Semitisms, the opinion of the present writer is that the Sumerian, as we have it, is fundamentally an.
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.
http://55.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SU/SUMER_AND_SUMERIAN.htm   (2048 words)

  
 Semitic Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
Most commonly, it is used to refer to speakers of Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Amharic.
The area of Semitic languages is actually much larger than the area most people associate with the term "Semitic".
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.
http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic.html   (408 words)

  
 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).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Afroasia_TheBerberLanguages.asp   (2154 words)

  
 Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one
The oldest known Semitic language, Akkadian, has not them at all except the glottal stop ʔ in some instances, and the only trace of those consonants are changes of near vowels as well as length of the preceding vowel.
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).
http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/lingwen/iesem1.html   (3197 words)

  
 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.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/rbaa.htm   (16050 words)

  
 Pre-Islamic Arabic Culture
Mecca was the center of this religion with its Ka'ba, or "Cube," which served as the temple for the religion.
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.
Many of these civilizations were very wealthy and powerful, and Semitic peoples in Africa largely owe their origin to these privileged southerners.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/PRE.HTM   (1709 words)

  
 Semitic languages
A Semite is one who speaks a semitic language.
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.
http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html   (431 words)

  
 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.
Masters students in the Christian Near East may specialize in Arabic, Coptic, or Syriac, and are expected to do coursework in another of these languages.
http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/semitics   (2656 words)

  
 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.
The Afro-Asiatic group is the main language family of northern Africa and southwestern Asia and includes such languages as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066720   (818 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Semitic Epigraphy
We shall begin with the branches which belong to the group of North Semitic languages.
There is no similar work for the South Semitic epigraphy.
The next section of this article will deal with inscriptions which belong to the South Semitic languages.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13709a.htm   (2496 words)

  
 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.
THE HISTORY OF ramaic was the language of Semitic peoples throughout the ancient Near East.
http://members.aol.com/assyrianme/aramaic/history.html   (559 words)

  
 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).
http://www.sembase.org   (1891 words)

  
 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.
In fact the ancient Hebrews spoke Aramaic, the language in which the Talmud was written, as well as parts of the bible.
In keeping with the Protestant Reformation's abduction of the Hebrew bible into its new religion and its positing of modern European Jews as direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, post- Enlightenment haters of Jews began to identify Jews as "Semites" on account of their alleged ancestors having spoken Hebrew.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/op63.htm   (1602 words)

  
 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.
http://www.imninalu.net/myths-Arabs.htm   (6817 words)

  
 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.
The origin of the Gurage communities is an unsettled issue: there is good reason to believe that they are the outgrowth of ancient military colonies from the north, though some reject this (Hudson 1977).
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.
http://www.abyssiniagateway.net/info/bender.html   (1976 words)

  
 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.
http://watch.pair.com/peshitta.html   (10765 words)

  
 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.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0822546.html   (270 words)

  
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The Indo-European languages have a morphology that is markedly different from the Semitic languages.
Thus a natural (and often necessary) preprocessing step for Semitic text is vocalization (or “pointing”) of the text: filling in the vowels and diacritical marks.
Motivation Henceforth we shall focus on Hebrew as a typical example of a Semitic language.
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~oslkonto/hmmvoc.doc   (2592 words)

  
 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 or characteristic of Semites
adjective: of or relating to the group of Semitic languages (
http://www.onelook.com/?w=Semitic&ls=a   (223 words)

  
 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.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/10_home.html   (59 words)

  
 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:
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm   (2253 words)

  
 The Semitic Etymological Dictionary
Lecturer in Bible and Semitic Languages: Russian State University for the Humanities, JUM
It was the descendants of those people who subsequently created such key ancient cultures as Babylonian, Assyrian, Ugaritic, Biblical and Rabbinical Jewish, Phoenician-Punic, early Christian Aramaic, Pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic.
Area of research: Semitics; Bible Studies; commented Biblical translation into Russian.
http://www.jum.ru/finproj/semetimdic.htm   (450 words)

  
 Semitic Linguistics Symposium - Jan '99
Volume 20 of IOS has been designed in order to step out of this traditional view, and to present a different look at Semitic Linguistics.
Joseph L. Malone (New York) � in absentia: The Chomskian School and Semitic Linguistics
David L. Appleyard (London): New Finds in the 20th Century: The South Semitic Languages
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/symposium1.html   (707 words)

  
 Wordsmyth
of or pertaining to the Semites or their languages.
http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=Semitic&matchtype=exact   (91 words)

  
 Shlomo Izre'el
1971/2-1973/4: Tel Aviv University; B.A. in Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics (with distinction), 1975.
1995-2005: Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages.
Since 2005: Head, Section of Semitic Linguistics, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies.
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/izreel.html   (316 words)

  
 Are all those that criticise Bilderberg Anti-Jewish? How can they be when so few Bilderbergers are Jewish?
There are many Jews who don’t follow their family religion and/or have married out of the faith, the latter of which can cause deep divisions in some Jewish households.
The World Bible Publishing 'Short Dictionary of Life and Peoples of Bible Times' gives the following description under the Semites entry: a group of nations, who, starting about 3000BC, appeared in Western Asia, south of modern Armenia and west of Iran.
"It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti- Semitism as well.
http://www.bilderberg.org/jewish.htm   (18839 words)

  
 Semitic languages
Language group that includes the languages Arabic, Hebrew in the Middle East region.
From North Semitic, the Greek alphabet also grew.
Semitic writings are divided into 3 groups: The cuneiform signs of Assyria and Babylonia, and secondly the alphabet of the North Semitic.
http://lexicorient.com/e.o/semit_l.htm   (175 words)

  
 Hebrew & Semitic Studies at UW-Madison
The Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at UW-Madison teaches Hebrew as a classical and living language and provides the opportunity to study the literature and thought of the cultures based on that language, including biblical Israel, rabbinic and medieval Judaism, and modern Israel.
50th Anniversary Celebration of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
Courses are also offered in areas of study cognate to the above: Semitic languages, archaeology, and Jewish cultural history.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/hebrew   (148 words)

  
 COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO SEMITIC LANGUAGES
Within the last four years, only three workshops addressed Semitic languages: an ACL2002 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages and an MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic Languages in 2003, and the EAMT 2004, held in
, had a special session on Semitic languages.
However, there is an apparent lag in the development of resources and tools for other Semitic languages.
http://fp.ccls.columbia.edu/~semwksp-acl05   (440 words)

  
 Myths & Facts -The Treatment of Jews in Arab/Islamic Countries
Arabs cannot possibly be anti-Semitic as they are themselves Semites.”
Arabs cannot possibly be anti-Semitic as they are themselves Semites.”
The term "anti-Semite" was coined in Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr to refer to the anti-Jewish manifestations of the period and to give Jew-hatred a more scientific sounding name.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html   (3033 words)

  
 Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
Of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology."
Type or paste a URL to reproduce the page with dictionary-enabling.
http://www.ultralingua.net/?service=ee&text=Semitic   (121 words)

  
 nw semitic links
An academic, refereed electronic journal devoted to the critical study of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
Jaghbub is a transkription font which was originally developped for Arabic on the Mac, but is very useful for other Semitic languages, too.
A collection of the most important West Semitic inscriptions, with photographs, material facts, translation, basic literature and some questions for further study, by K.C.Hanson, Biblical Studies Editor at Fortress Press.
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/lehmann/link.html   (2769 words)

  
 Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
Semitic languages are used by a significantly large population of native speakers and belong to a family that includes a large number of Arabic dialects (including classical Arabic), Maltese,Hebrew and other languages.
Although there exists a body of CL research specifically targeted to individual Semitic languages, and there have been various workshops devoted to computing with Semitic Languages, much of the work to date remains the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments.
A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach.
http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL   (356 words)

  
 Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ. Home Page
The Semitic Museum is one of the Harvard University Museums, housing collections of archaeological materials from the Ancient Near East.
The Semitic Museum is located at 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ©1999 The President & Fellows of Harvard College
In 1995, the Semitic Museum received approximately 1350 items from Stanford University as part of an exchange.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic   (518 words)

  
 Semitic Museum - Cyprus Home Page
When he left Cyprus, he took with him thousands of objects, which formed part of the original collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The Semitic Museum is located at 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA ©2005 The President & Fellows of Harvard College
This exhibit at the Semitic Museum features selected pieces from the collection, along with other Cypriot artifacts from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and the State University of New York in Albany.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/hsm/CyprusHomePage.htm   (370 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Iraq
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Eastern, Central, Northeastern
Several hundred thousand for group of Gurani speakers in both Iraq and Iran (Blau 1989).
Dialects: In the Gurani (Gorani) and Zaza group.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Iraq   (853 words)

  
 Oxford Journals Humanities Journal of Semitic Studies
Semitic Studies has always been understood by the editors to include the modern as well as the ancient Near (Middle) East, with special emphasis on research into the languages and literatures of the area.
The Journal of Semitic Studies was established in 1955 and since then has built up a reputation as one of the leading international academic journals in its field.
The editors continue to maintain the policy of ensuring that each volume contains items of interest to Orientalists and Biblical Scholars.
http://jss.oxfordjournals.org   (117 words)

  
 1992-93 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL REPORT
He has also written chapters in collective volumes: "Phonology of Ethiopic" (A. Kaye, ed., Introduction to the Phonology of Oriental Languages, Harrassowitz), "Ge'ez" (R. Hetzron, ed., The Semitic Languages, Routledge).
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/92-93/92-93_Ind_Gragg.html   (246 words)

  
 Weiner (NY09) - Report - Report Prepared By: Representative Anthony D. - Anti-Semitism on the Rise
11/21: Anti- Semitic graffiti written on front door of the Clearview Jewish Center, 16-50 Utopia Parkway, Brooklyn.
http://www.house.gov/weiner/report21.htm   (876 words)

  
 Major Anti-Semitic Motifs in Arab Cartoons - Joël Kotek
Joël Kotek was born in Gent in 1958.
Arieh Stav, Peace: The Arabian Caricature; A study of Anti- Semitic Imagery (Jerusalem: Gefen, 1999).
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-21.htm   (3684 words)

  
 Semitic Languages
Also, see site Semitic Transliterator, and the company's homepage
The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project --A major site for work on Ugaritic texts
If you have comments, or have something you would like to see added to this site, please send me a message.
http://www.accd.edu/pac/philosop/phil1301/semiticl.htm   (118 words)

  
 Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest
Many have expressed the concern that the cartoons we published here will be used out of context by real anti-semites to spread further hate against us.
Anti semites will always find excuses for hatred, with or without our help.
http://www.boomka.org   (1749 words)

  
 AHRC - Ancient Semitic Inscriptions
The copyrights to many of the pictures in the "Ancient Semitic Inscriptions" section belong to others, please notify us before using.
See Chart for the Early, Middle, Late and Modern Semitic Scripts.
Click the images for larger image and information on the script.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/6_inscriptions.html   (43 words)

  
 Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
We publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world
semitic was found in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English at the entries listed below.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=A&searchword=semitic   (34 words)

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