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| | Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | Semitic languages today are also spoken in Malta (where an Italian-influenced dialect of North African Arabic is spoken) and on the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean between Yemen and Somalia, where a dying vestige of South Arabian is spoken in the form of Soqotri. | | | Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic languages, the Semitic languages, as well as their speakers' corresponding cultures, and ethnicities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic
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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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| | 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. | | | 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 Semitic languages are fairly closely interrelated -- approximately as closely as the various Germanic or Romance languages. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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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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| | 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. |
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http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic.html
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| | Sembase |
| | 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). | | | Geographically, the Semitic languages were spoken in the Middle East (the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula). | | | Unfortunately, since the Semitic languages are so similar, it is not always possible to know what is borrowed and what is native to a language. |
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http://www.sembase.org
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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. | | | When The Catholic University of America was founded in 1887, the study of the Semitic and Egyptian languages and their associated literatures and cultures was designated as an area of special concern. |
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http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/semitics
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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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| | Semitic languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Such modern languages as Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong to the Semitic language group. | | | Modern Hebrew, the standard language of Israel, is also a Semitic language. | | | 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. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066720
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| | semitic - Wiktionary |
| | Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al. | | | 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 (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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| | 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. | | | Perhaps some history will help: The term "Semite" was invented by European philologists in the 18th century to distinguish languages from one another by grouping them into "families" descended from one "mother" tongue to which they are all related. | | | 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. |
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/op63.htm
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| | Semitic languages |
| | 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. | | | A Semite is one who speaks a semitic language. |
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http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html
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| | Semites |
| | Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians. | | | 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. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/semites.htm
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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. | | | There is no similar work for the South Semitic epigraphy. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13709a.htm
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| | SUMER AND SUMERIAN - LoveToKnow Article on SUMER AND SUMERIAN |
| | 49 67; American Journal of Semitic Languages, xix. | | | 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. |
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http://55.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SU/SUMER_AND_SUMERIAN.htm
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| | hmmvoc.doc |
| | The Indo-European languages have a morphology that is markedly different from the Semitic languages. | | | The Semitic languages, on the other hand, have a morphology that has been called nonlinear (or nonconcatenative). | | | 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. |
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http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~oslkonto/hmmvoc.doc
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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: | | | For language fonts covering the scripts (alphabets) of the languages whose transliteration is supported by Semitic Transliterator in Unicode, see the following: | | | Semitic Transliterator™ in Unicode™ is available for both Windows and Macintosh and provides professional-quality, Unicode-encoded transliteration fonts in TrueType® OpenType® format for transliterating Semitic languages plus Greek and Coptic (also called Romanized phonetic transcription). |
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http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm
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| | Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | Semitic languages today are also spoken in Malta (where an Italian-influenced dialect of North African Arabic is spoken) and on the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean between Yemen and Somalia, where a dying vestige of South Arabian is spoken in the form of Soqotri. | | | Wildly successful as second languages far beyond their numbers of contemporary first-language speakers, a few Semitic languages today are the base of the sacred literature of some of the world's great religions, including Christianity (Aramaic and Ge'ez), Islam (Arabic), and Judaism (Hebrew and Aramaic). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic
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| | Semitic Linguistics Symposium - Jan '99 |
| | David L. Appleyard (London): New Finds in the 20th Century: The South Semitic Languages | | | Semitic linguistics has always been associated with philology rather than with linguistics, with the decipherment of dead languages rather than with the study of modern living languages, and with diachronic and comparative linguistics rather than with synchronic analyses of languages. | | | 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. |
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http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/symposium1.html
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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 and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 |
| | The Semitic languages are also the origin of many proper names in English, such as the names of many of the books of the Bible, as well as given names such as | | | The ancient ancestor of all the Semitic languages, like Proto-Indo-European a prehistoric, unwritten language, is called Proto-Semitic or Common Semitic. | | | The emphatic consonants are characteristic of Semitic; in Proto-Semitic they were probably glottalized, that is, produced with a simultaneous closing of the glottis in the throat; this is how they are still pronounced in the Ethiopian Semitic languages. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/61/10.html
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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. | | | Another theory holds that the Hamito-Semitic, or Afroasiatic, language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in W Asia. | | | Traditionally, the Hamito-Semitic language family is said to have two subfamilies: Semitic and Hamitic. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0822546.html
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| | Shlomo Izre'el |
| | 1995-2005: Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages. | | | Since the academic year 1975/6 has been teaching at Tel Aviv University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Department of Semitic Linguistics, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies. | | | Semitic Language Samples: Eastern and Northwest Semitic Languages |
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http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/izreel.html
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| | 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. |
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http://fp.ccls.columbia.edu/~semwksp-acl05
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| | Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 |
| | Central Semitic is further subdivided into the South Arabian inscriptional languages; classical, medieval, and modern forms of Arabic; and the Northwest Semitic languages, which include Hebrew and Aramaic. | | | The Semitic languages are also the origin of many proper names in English, such as the names of many of the books of the Bible, as well as given names such as | | | A distinctive characteristic of the Semitic languages is the formation of words by the combination of a “root” of consonants in a fixed order, usually three, and a “pattern” of vowels and, sometimes, affixes before and after the root. |
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http://bartleby.com/61/10.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | updated 5-1-2003 Canaanite (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Canaanite-Phoenician sub-branch of the Northern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | You have reached the second page on Semitic Languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | Canaanite languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | 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. | | | The letter X probably started as a picture sign of a fish, such as is found in the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing which was used in about 1500 BC on the Sinai Peninsula (2). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9019902?&query=canaanite
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| | Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Semitic languages are the only Afro-Asiatic subfamily based outside of Africa; however, in historical or near-historical times, some Semitic speakers crossed from South Arabia back into Ethiopia, so some modern Ethiopian languages (such as Amharic) are Semitic rather than belonging to the substrate Cushitic or Omotic groups. | | | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). | | | Alexander Militarev (2000), on the basis of lexicostatistics, groups Berber with Chadic and both, more distantly, with Semitic, as against Cushitic and Omotic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| | The Semitic Etymological Dictionary |
| | Lecturer in Bible and Semitic Languages: Russian State University for the Humanities, JUM | | | 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. | | | SED will also create a groundwork for reconstruction of the ethnogenesis, migrations and socio-cultural history of ancient Semitic peoples, and their linguistic and cultural ties with the surrounding peoples: Sumerians, Egyptians, early Indo-Europeans, Elamites and Hurrians, among others. |
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http://www.jum.ru/finproj/semetimdic.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Canaanite languages |
| | Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. | | | The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. | | | The main sources for study of Canaanite languages are the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and inscriptions such as: The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canaanite-languages
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