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In Israel, it is the de facto language of the state and the people, as well as being one of the two official languages (together with Arabic), and is spoken by a majority of the population.
The Canaanite languages are a group within Northwest Semitic, emerging in the 2nd millennium BCE in the Levant, gradually separating from Aramaic and Ugaritic.
The language of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was a dialect of Aramaic.
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 Soddo language at AllExperts
Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by about 300,000 people in southeastern Ethiopia.
It is a South Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily.
A Soddo verb may have anywhere from one to four consonants, or may be a compound with balo "say" (eg bək'k' balo "appear".) In the former case, they fall into three "conjugations" differing in their vowels and in gemination of the imperfect, illustrated for a three-consonant verb:
en.allexperts.com /e/s/so/soddo_language.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Semitic_languages LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center-south of Ethiopia, while Harari is restricted to the city of Harar.
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.
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 Semitic
The Akkadian language is first attested in cuneiform writing on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) from the mid-third millennium BC, and Semitic languages continue to be spoken in the Middle East and in northeastern Africa today.
Arabic is the religious language of the Muslims; Hebrew of the Jews; and some sects of Christianity in Western Asia still use Syriac (actually a modern version of Aramaic) for their scriptures.
Tigrinya is one of the official language of Eritrea, spoken in central Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia.
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 Gurage - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
According to the historian Paul B. Henze, their origins are explained by traditions of a military expedition to the south during the last years of the Axumite Kingdom which left military colonies that eventually became isolated from both northern Ethiopia and each other.
The Gurage people speak a number of separate languages, all belonging to the Southern branch of the Ethiopian Semitic language family (which also includes Amharic).
The languages are often referred to collectively as "Guraginya" (sometimes written with its Italian spelling "Guragigna") by other Ethiopians (-inya is the suffix for language names in most Ethiopian Semitic languages).
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gurage   (1193 words)

  
 Where can I find Semitic Languages information?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Semitic languages were closed in by the earliest to reap a written form, with Akkadian penmanship starting point in the middlemost of the third millennium BC.
A ordinal of Gurage languages are to be shape in the mountainous center-south of Ethiopia, while Harari is shortened to the metropolitan of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the northern Eritrean lowlands, has untroubled a million speakers.
All Semitic languages unalloyed a unexampled impression of stems dwelling of "triliteral" or consonantal roots (normally dwelling of ten consonants), from which nouns, adjectives, verbs are formed by inserting vowels with, potentially, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
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 Ethnologue: Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Dialects: SODDO (AYMALLAL, AYMELLEL, KESTANE, KISTANE), GOGOT (GOGGOT, DOBI, DOBBI).
The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper and Ferguson 1976:14).
Yemsa is the primary language of the ethnic group.
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 SEMITIC LANGUAGES FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 370 million people across much of the Middle East, where they probably originated, and North and East Africa.
With the emergence of Islam, the ascent of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language — Arabic — the official language of an empire stretching from Morocco to Pakistan.
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.
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 Maltese language - ikiW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Maltese is the national language of Malta, and an official language of the European Union.
It is the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet in its standard form.
In the course of history, the language has adopted numerous loanwords, phonetic and phonological features, and even morphological and syntactic patterns from Sicilian, Italian, and English.
maltese-language.ikiw.net /en/Maltese_language   (291 words)

  
 Ethiopia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ethiopia's livestock population is believed to be the largest in Africa, and as of 1987 accounted for about 15 percent of the GDP.
English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is taught in all secondary schools.
Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by local languages such as Oromifa and Tigrinya.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ethiopia   (2721 words)

  
 Arabic language Information and Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Structural influence from foreign languages or from the colloquials has also affected Modern Standard Arabic: for example, MSA texts sometimes use the format "A, B, C, and D" when listing things, whereas Classical Arabic prefers "A and B and C and D", and subject-initial sentences are significantly more common in MSA than in Classical Arabic.
Arabic is a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, Kurdish, Persian, Swahili, Urdu, Hindi (especially the spoken variety), Bengali, Turkish, Malay, and Indonesian, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken.
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.
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 Language
Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
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 Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan
The Cushitic languages are mostly spoken in central, southern and eastern Ethiopia (mainly in Afar, Oromia and Somali regions).
The Omotic languages are predominantly spoken between the Lakes of southern Rift Valley and the Omo River.
The Nilo-Saharan languages are largely spoken in the western part of the country along the border with Sudan (mainly in Gambella and Benshangul regions).
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 Soddo Christian Hospital - Ethiopia
Soddo Christian Hospital opened in January, 2005, under the ownership of St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation of Wheaton, Ill. The foundation aims to provide desperately needed health care, given with compassion in the name of Jesus Christ.
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia, but there are more than 70 major language groups.
Soddo, at about 7,000 feet elevation, rests on the edge of the Great Rift Valley.
www.soddo.org //about-ethiopia   (258 words)

  
 Where can I find Semitic Language information?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Semitic languages were mid the earliest to promote a written form, with Akkadian longhand basis in the medial of the third millennium BC.
A numerator of Gurage languages are to be complete in the mountainous center-south of Ethiopia, while Harari is binded to the burghal of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the northern Eritrean lowlands, has flawless a million speakers.
All Semitic languages exposition a scarcely ever motif of stems subsisting of "triliteral" or consonantal roots (normally subsisting of eight consonants), from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed by inserting vowels with, potentially, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
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 Gurage:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
According to the historian Paul B. Henze, their origins are explained by traditions of a military expedition to the south during the last years of the Axumite Kingdom which left military colonies that eventually became isolated from both northern Ethiopia and each other.
The languages are often referred to collectively as "Guraginya" (sometimes written with its Italian spelling "Guragigna") by other Ethiopians (-inya is the suffix for language names in most Ethiopian Semitic languages).
As the Gurage people are surrounded by speakers of Cushitic languages, these languages have influenced the Gurage languages perhaps even more than they have other Ethiopian Semitic languages.
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 Saho language resources
...language Saho language Soddo language Silte language Somali language Tigrigna language Weyto language Hadiya language Harari language English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is taught in all...
Saho-Afar languages Saho Afar Konso-Gidole Konso (or Komso) Dirasha (or Gidole, Kidole, Diraytata) Oromo...
The Saho language is a Cushitic language of Eritrea, spoken in the middle of the country, as well as by a small group across the border in Ethiopia.
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Saho.html   (1220 words)

  
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With the emergence of Islam, the ascent of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language - Arabic - the official language of an empire stretching from Spain to Central Asia.
Modern Ethiopian Semitic languages are SOV, possessor - possessed, and adjective - noun, probably due to Cushitic influence; however, the oldest attested Ethiopian Semitic language, Ge'ez, was VSO, possessed - possessor, and noun - adjective[7].
Ethiopic-derived languages use a completely different root (----f) for the verb "to write" (this root exists in Arabic and is used to form words with close meaning to "writing", such as „a-“fa "journalism", and „a-“fa "newspaper" or "parchment").
www.coder-world.de /cgi-bin/metaseek/lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Semitic_languages   (2724 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.
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 Ethiopia
The Arabic form of this term is the etymological basis of "Abyssinia," the former name of Ethiopia in English and other European languages.
English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is taught in all secondary schools.
Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by local languages such as Oromifa and Tigrinya.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Ethiopia   (2542 words)

  
 Baloté Amalo, Ethiopia, Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church
In 1946 Selma Bergsten, fluent in the Wolaitta language because of her 1930-1937 pre-Italian experience in southern Ethiopia, began discussions with the Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church Council about a special teaching program for young Wolaitta women.
Through the missionary challenge to bring the gospel to the unreached at the annual Bible conferences held at the SIM centre at Soddo and throughout the Wolaitta districts, many women volunteered to evangelize outside of Wolaitta.
In January 1955 Amoché returned to Wolaitta, Soddo for the annual Bible conference to report on the evangelistic advances in Gofa.
www.dacb.org /stories/ethiopia/balote_aymalo.html   (576 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Semitic languages XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In any event, Proto-Semitic itself is assumed to have been spoken in approximately the 4th millennium BC in the Arabian Peninsula.
Semitic daughter languages spread outwards from its heartland in the Arabian Peninsula and the southern Levant.
Alexander Militarev) see the South Arabian languages as a third branch of Semitic alongside East and West Semitic, rather than as a subgroup of South Semitic.
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 Gurage Language Facts And Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
SODDO: 254,682 mother tongue speakers, 60,538 second language speakers, 363,867 in the ethnic group (1998 census).
All Gurage languages including Soddo: 1,881,574 mother tongue speakers, 208,358 second language speakers, 2,290,274 in the ethnic group, 1,248,415 monolinguals (1998 census).
Dialects: ENNEQOR (INNEQOR), SILTI (SELTI), ULBARAG (URBAREG), WOLANE (WALANE), SODDO (AYMALLAL, AYMELLEL, KESTANE, KISTANE), GOGOT (GOGGOT, DOBI, DOBBI), CHAHA (CHEHA), INOR (ENNEMOR), EZHA (EZA, IZHA), GUMER (GWEMARRA), GURA, ENEGEGNY, MASQAN (MESQAN, MESKAN), MU
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 Arabic language
The Arabic language is a Semitic language with many varieties that diverge widely from one another -— both from country to country and within a single country.
Later, in 1994, Abdelaziz Pasha Fahmi, a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Egypt proposed the replacement of the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
In combination with the fusion of the indirect object and the development of new mood markers, this results in verbal complexes that are approaching agglutinative languages in their complexity.
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 Wolf Leslau, 1906-2006
He became the founding Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages (later renamed Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), and was instrumental in establishing the Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Some of the languages that Professor Leslau worked with had little or no written text when he began his research.
In the case of Gafat, Wolf Leslau's timely intervention recorded details of this language that was on the verge of extinction.
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 South Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Semitic itself is considered a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family found, as indicated in the name, both in (northern and eastern) Africa and (southwestern) Asia.
Eritrea's main languages are mainly Tigrinya and Tigre which are North Ethiopic languages while Amharic (South Ethiopic) is the main language spoken in Ethiopia (along with Tigrinya in the northern province of Tigray).
The modern and historic presence of South Semitic Ethiopian languages (and Ethiopic script) in Africa is believed by some to be due to a (backwards) migration of South Arabian speakers from Yemen within the last few thousand years.
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