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	ninemsn Encarta - Semitic Languages
		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)

	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.
		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.
		By the end of the millennium, East Semitic languages dominated in Mesopotamia, while West Semitic languages were probably spoken from Syria to Yemen, although data is sparse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semitic_languages (1514 words)

	Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the expansion of Ethiopia under the Solomonid dynasty, Amharic, previously a minor local language, spread throughout much of the country, replacing languages both Semitic (such as Gafat) and non-Semitic (such as Weyto) and replacing Ge'ez as the principal literary language; this spread continues to this day, with set to disappear in another generation.
		Ethiopia and Eritrea contain a substantial number of Semitic languages, of which Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrigna in Eritrea, and are the most widely spoken.
		A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Semitic_language (1519 words)

	Encyclopedia: Semitic-languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Proto-Semitic is the hypothetical proto-language of the Semitic languages.
		The Amorite language is the term used for the early (North-)West Semitic language, spoken by the north Semitic Amorite tribes prominent in early Middle Eastern history.
		The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Semitic_languages (4901 words)

	SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Towards the east this language was spoken on the Euphrates, and throughout the districts of the Tigris south and west of the Armenian and Kurdish mountains; the province in which the capitals of the Arsacids and the Sassanids ware situated was called the country of the Aramaeans.
		The language spoken some time afterwards by the Palestinian Jews, especially in Galilee, is exhibited in a series of rabbinical works, the so-called J erusaleln Targums (of which, however, those on the Hagiographa are in some cases of later date), a few Midrashic works, and the Jerusalem Talmud.
		This language lived on, in a sense, through the whole of the middle ages, owing chiefly to the fact that it was intended for educated persons in general and not only for the learned, whereas the poetical schools strove to preserve exactly the grammar and the lexicon of the long extinct language of the Bedouins.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm (19947 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Lebanon and Syria, and the Southwest (South) to the Arabian peninsula and Ethiopia.
		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.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2726 words)

	Semitic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Semitic languages are the northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages, and the only family of this group spoken in Asia.
		The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya.
		The term "Semitic" for these language is etymologically a misnomer in some ways (see Semitic), but is the standard term in linguistics.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/semitic_languages (383 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian language Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Maltese language Maltese, genetically a descendant of Arabic, is the principal exception, having adopted a Latin orthography in accordance with its cultural situation.
		Hadhramautic languages Hadhramautic languages — extinct -
	www.mauspfeil.net /Semitic_languages.html (3184 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		The Modern South Arabian languages are spoken in the south of Oman (Dhofar) and the southeast of Yemen.
		To the MSA languages belong Mehri, Socotri, Jibbali, Bathari, Harsusi and Hobyot.
		Wien:Hölder Johnstone, T.M. 'The Language of Poetry in Dhofar'.
	www.ogmios.org /105.htm (2816 words)

	Universiteit Leiden
		South Semitic languages are a branch of the Semitic languages.
		The study of the South Semitic languages of Ethiopia, such as Amharic, Tigre, Tigrinya, Gurage, Harari gained momentum in the second half of the twentieth century.
		The South Semitic languages of Oman and Yemen that are still spoken today, generally known under the name "Modern South Arabian languages" have received relatively little attention.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /talengids/zuidsem.htm (1133 words)

	Semitic languages
		Language group that includes the languages Arabic, Hebrew in the Middle East region.
		Semitic languages are characterized by roots of 3 consonants, from which a large body of verbs and nouns can be derived.
		Semitic writings are divided into 3 groups: The cuneiform signs of Assyria and Babylonia, and secondly the alphabet of the North Semitic.
	i-cias.com /e.o/semit_l.htm (175 words)

	Semitic Languages articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people across much of the Middle East, where they originated, and North AfricaNorth and East Africa.
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian languageAkkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while Harari languageHarari is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre languageTigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Semitic%20language.htm (1583 words)

	Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There also exists a probably more plausible view that the Khoisan languages can be contrasted with all the other languages of the world, and the Zinj languages have more in common with the languages of Australia and south-eastern Asia than with the AA languages (see here and here).
		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.
		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).
	grzegorj.w.interia.pl /lingwen/iesem1.html (3197 words)

	South Semitic languages Definition / South Semitic languages Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Semitic languages are the northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languagesThe Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.
		The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.
		Arabic has been a literary language for over 1500 years, and is the liturgical language of Islam....
	www.elresearch.com /South_Semitic_languages (275 words)

	Semitic languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Berber languages are spoken in scattered areas throughout northern Africa from Egypt westward to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Niger River northward to the Mediterranean Sea.
		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.
		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.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066720 (858 words)

	Semitic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEWSPAPERS The Independent (London, England) 11/7/2003 Irvine, A.K. Aramaic languages and, as Professor of Semitic Languages at London University from 1961 until...
		No longer were Semitic languages to be treated as an...
		The I-w verbal class and the reconstruction of the early Semitic preradical vocalism.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Semitic_languages (604 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Semitic Epigraphy
		Semitic epigraphy is a new science, dating only from the past fifty years.
		These are distinguished by the more cursive form of the writing and also by the language: they are of greater philological interest, some of the letters performing the office of vowels.
		Directly connected with inscriptions through language and period are the Aramaic texts written on papyrus and discovered in Egypt.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13709a.htm (2475 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.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0920673.html (663 words)

	Semitic languages
		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.
		With the use of the cuneiform writing system (borrowed from the Sumerians, a non-Semitic language), with signs values that stand for syllables, Akkadian is the only Semitic language in which the vowels are explicitly spelled.
	www.sron.nl /~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html (431 words)

	Semitic Languages
		Next to Aryan, philologists distinguish another group of languages which seem to have been made quite separately from the Aryan languages, the Semitic.
		In the Neolithic Age the original Aryan speakers and the original Semitic speakers were probably living, so to speak, in different worlds with a minimum of intercourse.
		Racially, it would seem, they had a remote common origin; both Aryan speakers and Semites are classed as Caucasians; but while the original Aryan speakers seem to have been of Nordic race, the original Semites were rather of the Mediterranean type.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/history-outline-48.shtml (196 words)

	SEMITIC LANGUAGES
		The area of Semitic languages is actually much larger than the area most people associate with the term "Semitic".
		While the term itself covers a geographical area from the Sinai to Iraq, and from Syria to Yemen, Semitic languages stretch all the way along the southern Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, into Mali and along the coast of the Red Sea all the way to Somalia in Africa.
		Semitic languages are also spoken in Malta and on some islands in the Indian Ocean.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SEMITIC+LANGUAGES (467 words)

	Semitic languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term "Semitic" for these languages is etymologically a misnomer in some ways (see (A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family) Semitic), but is the standard term in linguistics.
		(The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic language
		(The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Se/Semitic_languages.htm (776 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library Semitic, pt. 1
		You have reached the first 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.
		Languages on this page so far are Akkadian, Aramaic, Eblan, Samaritan, Semitic Languages, and South Arabic.
		South Arabic is spoken in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semite1h.htm (1301 words)

	The Quest of the Historical Jesus: Chapter 17
		The users of these languages, the Aramaeans, were seated in historic times between the Babylonians and Canaanites, the area of their distribution extending from the foot of Lebanon and Hermon in a north-easterly direction as far as Mesopotamia, where "Aram of the two rivers" forms their eastern-most province.
		The High-German of Luther's translation of the Bible was the language of the Church, the Alemannic dialect was the usual speech of the people, while French was the language of culture and of government administration.
		In the language which He used, [Son of Man in Aramaic] was merely a periphrasis for "a man." That Jesus meant Himself when He spoke of the Son of Man, none of His hearers could have suspected.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /schweitzer/chapter17.html (8010 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The position requires teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Semitic languages and Semitic Linguistics, and conducting research.
		Ph.D. in Semitic linguistics, or Ph.D. in linguistics or a cognate field with expertise in Semitic linguistics.
		Preference will be given to a candidate who shows interest in research and teaching of spoken South Semitic languages (Ethiopian or Modern South Arabian).
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANENEWS-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n102 (493 words)

	Semitic languages - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		5.1 The Eastern Semitic Languages 5.2 The Central Semitic languages
		5.2.1 Northwest Semitic languages 5.2.2 South Central (Arabic) languages
		5.3.1 Western (within South Semitic) 5.3.2 Eastern (within South Semitic)
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Semitic_languages (1583 words)

	Universiteit Leiden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sabaean epigraphy developped into one of the most important Semitic epigraphic disciplines.
		The study of Sabaean inscriptions, both on stone and on wood, is of great importance for at least two reasons.
		Firstly it may lead to new linguistic insights concerning the earlier stages of South Semitic languages and their relations to the modern South Semitic languages in Yemen and Oman as well as the South Semitic languages of modern Ethiopia.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /talengids/sabaean.htm (219 words)

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