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	Central Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of Semitic languages, of which the most prominent members are Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic.
		The disagreement is usually on the relationship of Arabic (and Old North Arabian dialects) with the Northwest Semitic languages, and the other West Semitic languages.
		The main distinction between Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages is the presence of broken plurals in the former.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Semitic_languages (165 words)

	Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Modern Ethiopian Semitic languages are SOV, possessor — possessed, and adjective — noun, probably due to Cushitic influence; however, the oldest attested Ethiopian Semitic language, Geez, was VSO, possessed — possessor, and noun — adjective[4].
		All Semitic languages exhibit a unique pattern of stems consisting of "triliteral" or consonantal roots (normally consisting of three consonants), from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed by inserting vowels with, potentially, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes (consonants inserted within the original root).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semitic_languages (2271 words)

	Semitic Languages - ninemsn Encarta
		Semitic Languages, one of the seven subfamilies or branches of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language family.
		Of the Semitic languages, Arabic was carried beyond its original home in the Arab Peninsula throughout the Arab Empire and is spoken across North Africa to the Atlantic coast, and Arabic and Hebrew are used by Muslims and Jews in other parts of the world.
		The other Semitic languages are centred in a region bounded on the west by Ethiopia and on the north by Syria and extending south-east through Iraq and the Arab Peninsula, with some “islands” of Semitic speech farther east in Iran.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569639/Semitic_Languages.html (682 words)

	African Languages - MSN Encarta
		Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
		Bambara, spoken in Mali, is the principal language in this subgroup.
		Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html (1776 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SEMITIC LANGUAGES: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Semitic languages betray their relationship one to another not only by similarity of articulation and grammatical foundation, but by identity of roots and word-forms; while the Hamitic languages reveal their kinship merely by a similarity in morphology and of the forms of their roots, less often in the material of the roots (comp.
		It is characteristic of all the Semitic languages that the peculiarities of the gutturals, the weakness of "w" and "y," and the tendency of a vowelless "n" to assimilate with the following letter, create "weak" or irregular verbs and cause anomalous noun-forms.
		The chief distinguishing characteristic of the Canaanitish languages is the construction known as "waw consecutive," in which a peculiarly vocalized conjunction connecting two verbs in a narrative enables a discourse begun in the imperfect state to be continued in the perfect, and vice versa.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=466&letter=S (3938 words)

	Behind the Name: Languages Referenced by this Site
		A Semitic language that was spoken in the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia.
		The Semitic language that was formerly spoken in Ethiopia.
		The Gaelic language of the Celts of Ireland.
	surnames.behindthename.com /languages.php (1157 words)

	Semitic languages - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Since Semitic is a member of Afro-Asiatic, a principally African family, the first speakers of proto-Semitic are generally believed to have arrived in the Middle East from Africa, although this question is still much debated.
		A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while Harari is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers.
		Nonetheless, one typologically unusual feature is preserved almost everywhere: all Semitic languages exhibit a pattern of stems consisting of consonantal roots (usually consisting of 3 consonants), from which words are formed by imposing vowel changes, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/e/m/Semitic_languages.html (1533 words)

	Languages & Writing Systems - Crystalinks
		Language is an ever evolving process on planet Earth varying from culture to culture and place to place depending on the needs of the civilization that existed at that timeline.
		Language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, communicate.
		The languages of North Asia are those spoken from the Arctic Ocean on the north to South Asia and China on the south and from the Caspian Sea and Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
	www.crystalinks.com /languages.html (2691 words)

	Arabic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arabic language (Arabic: اللغة العربية‎ translit: al-lughah al-‘arabiyyah), or simply Arabic (Arabic: عربي‎ translit: ‘arabī), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.
		In languages not directly in contact with the Arab world, Arabic loanwords are often mediated by other languages rather than being transferred directly from Arabic; for example, most Arabic loanwords in Urdu entered through Persian, and many older Arabic loanwords in Hausa were borrowed from Kanuri.
		Semitic [p] became [f] extremely early on in Arabic before it was written down; a few modern Arabic dialects, such as Iraqi (influenced by Persian) distinguish between [p] and [b].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabic_language (3013 words)

	The Classification Of The Semitic Languages
		Originally, the Semitic languages were thought to constitute two separate groups--Semitic and Hamitic, but this division may have been motivated by racial, as well as linguistic considerations, so today, the designation "Hamitic" has been dropped, perhaps disingenuously, and all the languages in the both groups are now called Semitic.
		The Central Semitic Languages are the Canaanite languages, and Aramaic, Ugaritic, Amorite, and Arabic.
		The Canaanite (or Canaanitish) languages are Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Phoenician and Hebrew.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/may/article038.html (569 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Semitic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Semitic languages SEMITIC LANGUAGES [Semitic languages] subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages.
		Hebrew language HEBREW LANGUAGE [Hebrew language] member of the Canaanite group of the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages).
		Assyrian language ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE [Assyrian language] East Semitic dialect that evolved from Akkadian after 1950 BC The term Assyrian is sometimes incorrectly used for the Akkadian language as a whole because the first inscriptions in Akkadian to be found in modern times were discovered in the region that was
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11682.html (566 words)

	HLW: Appendices: Languages Cited
		At first it was not the first language of anybody, but with the growth of cities and marriage between speakers of different first languages, it soon became a language learned by children as a first language.
		Eskimo languages are spoken in a large, sparsely populated region extending from the far eastern end of Siberia in Russia, across Alaska and northern Canada to Greenland.
		As in other sign languages, there is a strong tendency for signs in ASL to be iconic, that is, to be motivated by their meanings rather than completely arbitrary.
	www.indiana.edu /~hlw/Appendices/languages.html (3920 words)

	Wikinfo \| Semitic languages
		The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya.
		These languages all exhibit a pattern of words consisting of triconsonantal roots, with vowel changes, prefixes, and suffixes used to inflect them.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Semitic_languages (161 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2823 words)

	Semitic languages - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 370 million people across much of the Middle East (with exception of Iran and Turkey), where they probably originated, and North and East Africa.
		The most widely spoken Semitic language today is Arabic (206 million speakers), followed by Amharic (17 million speakers), Hebrew (6 million speakers), and Tigrinya (5,100,000 speakers).
		Modern Ethiopian Semitic languages are SOV, but all come from older Geez, an SVO language.
	www.voyager.in /Semitic_languages (2092 words)

	Afroasiatic languages: The Semitic Languages
		The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent tongue, proto-Semitic.
		The Semitic verb is distinguished by its ability to form from the same root a number of derived stems that express new meanings based on the fundamental sense, such as passive, reflexive, causative, and intensive.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium B.C. At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, and these languages strongly influenced the imported Semitic tongues.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0920673.html (635 words)

	Web resources for Semitic (African) languages
		There are some 20 Semitic languages in Africa, including at least 5 different varieties of spoken Arabic.
		Linguistic analyses: the non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa.
		Nationalism and the Arabic language: a historical overview.
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/semitic.html (489 words)

	Arabic
		Language of written communication and of most formal, oral communication for speakers of Arabic dialects from Morocco to Iraq.
		Classified as South Central Semitic, Arabic is related to Hebrew, spoken in Israel, and Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, as well as to the ancient Semitic languages.
		Today, Arabic is a unifying bond among Arabs, and it is the liturgical language of Muslims in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
	www.flw.com /languages/arabic.htm (154 words)

	Hamito-Semitic languages
		The most satisfactory explanation is that the Hamitic and Semitic groups, despite their divergences, are subfamilies of a single Hamito-Semitic linguistic family, as evidenced by their marked grammatical, lexical, and phonological resemblances.
		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.
		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.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0822546.html (262 words)

	ALMISBAH: Specific Encyclopedias (WWW) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Languages of the Caucasus: Northern Caucasian Languages
		Languages and Literatures at the Horn of Africa: Cushitic Languages and Literatures
		Languages and Literatures at the Horn of Africa: Ethiopic Languages and Literatures
	ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de /vlib/ssgfi/formal/almisbah_ej1_on_en.html (245 words)

	Amazon.com: The Semitic Languages (Routledge Language Family Descriptions): Books: Robert Hetzron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches by Gotthelf Bergstrasser
		The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day.
		The question underlying, explicitly or implicitly, many discussions of the relationships among the Semitic languages in how appropriate for discovering such relationships are methods developed by Indo-Europeanists.
	www.amazon.com /Semitic-Languages-Routledge-Language-Descriptions/dp/0415057671 (790 words)

	Afroasiatic languages: The Semitic Languages
		B.C. The language is also preserved in inscriptions from ancient Phoenician colonies, especially Carthage, whose language was a variant of Phoenician known as Punic.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium
		B.C. At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, and these languages strongly influenced the imported Semitic tongues.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/misc/A0920673.html (676 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 in the process of putting on-line its collection of Cypriot antiquities from the Cesnola Collection.
		The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University is a division of the College of Arts and Sciences.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/hsm/AltSemMuseumHome.htm (542 words)

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