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	SomaliNet Forum (Archive) - ^^^^^CUSHITIC RELIGION^^^^^
		The Semitic languages are named after Shem or Sem, the oldest son of Noah, from whom most of the languages’ speakers were said to be descended.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium B.C. by Semites.
		Cushitic (ksht´k) (KEY), group of languages belonging to the Hamitic subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages.
	www.somalinet.com /forum/messages/4669/17136.html?981650665

	Semitic languages: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		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...
		The ammonite language is the extinct hebrew canaanite language of the ammonite people mentioned in the bible, who used to live in modern-day jordan, and...
		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...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/semitic_languages.htm (1460 words)

	SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES
		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 period in which the Hebrews, the Arabs and the other Semitic nations together formed a single people is so distant that none of them can possibly have retained any tradition of it.
		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)
		The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac).
		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.
		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.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2815 words)

	Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semitic_languages (2815 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Semitic Languages
		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.
		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.
		Semitic Languages, one of the seven subfamilies or branches of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language family.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569639/Semitic_Languages.html (2815 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: African_languages
		The main subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic are the Semitic languages, the Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic languages.
		The Nilotic languages, having expanded substantially with the Nilotic peoples in recent centuries, are a geographically widespread language family and have a large population.
		The family consists of more than a hundred languages spoken by 30 million people.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=African_languages (2815 words)

	Encyclopedia: Romance languages
		Many of the differences from the Romance languages in relation to Latin are analytical: articles and prepositions instead of declension, use of auxiliary verbs for the composite verbs, etc. In linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role.
		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.
		Zarphatic or Judæo-French (Zarphatic: Tsarfatit) is an extinct Jewish language, formerly spoken among the Jewish communities of northern France and in parts of what is now west-central Germany, in such cities as Mainz, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Aachen.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Romance-languages (2815 words)

	SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES
		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 period in which the Hebrews, the Arabs and the other Semitic nations together formed a single people is so distant that none of them can possibly have retained any tradition of it.
		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 (2815 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac).
		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 (2815 words)

	SEM 230 - Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature
		Huehnergard, J. "Remarks on the Classification of the Northwest Semitic Languages," in The Balaam Text from Deir Alla Re-evaluated: proceedings of the international symposium held at Leiden, 21-24 August 1989.
		Ginsberg, H. “The Northwest Semitic Languages,” The World History of the Jewish People, volume 1/2: Patriarches.
		To introduce the language and literature of the Levant (usually referred to as Northwest Semitic) during the Iron Age (ca.
	www.nelc.ucla.edu /Faculty/Schniedewind_files/SEM230_NW_Sem.htm (1973 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Slavic peoples [EncycloZine]
		They speak Slavic languages and reside chiefly in the east of that continent, but are also found in Asia east to the Pacific Ocean.
		Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany claimed the racial superiority of the Germanic people, particularly over the Semitic and Slavic peoples.
		Numerous Slavic place names of the Peloponesus date to the second century C.E. Karantania in today's Austria and Slovenia formed the first known Slavic state, very old are also the Principality of Nitra and the Moravian principality (see under Great Moravia).
	encyclozine.com /Slavs (1973 words)

	Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources
		Linguistic bibliography of the non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia.
		The languages and dialects of the Southwest Province of Cameroon.
		Austronesian languages of the Morobe District, Papua New Guinea.
	www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/bibliography.asp (7065 words)

	Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are considered an isolated branch of Afro-Asiatic.
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 20 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cushitic_languages (7065 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac).
		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.
		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.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (7065 words)

	HEC refs
		The influence of Sidamo on the Ethiopic languages of Gurage.
		A note on the relative chronology of the Cushitic verb and genetic classification of the Cushitic languages.
		The Morphology of Nominal Plural in the Cushitic Languages (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 28).
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/HECrefs.htm (7065 words)

	Afroasiatic languages: The Semitic Languages
		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.
		The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent tongue, proto-Semitic.
		The Ugaritic language has variously been regarded as an early form of Hebrew, an early form of Phoenician, an early dialect of Canaanite, and an independent dialect of West Semitic.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0920673.html (7065 words)

	Introduction: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
		In terms of the history of the Mediterranean basin, the primary language groups which have dominated the political and thus historical arenas are the Semitic and Indo-European groups.
		All classifications of this sort ignore the cultural links between languages--also the finer aspects of languages, such as dialect, are lost in the jumble.
		West and Southwest: Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Maldivirian, Sinhalese
	www.juyayay.com /outline (686 words)

	Map Zones : Eritrea Map
		Eritrea's population comprises nine ethnic groups, most of which speak Semitic or Cushitic languages.
		In the drier coastal plain and the arid regions of the north and west, livestock raising predominated.
		Traditionally, agriculture was the norm in the plateau region and in the north and west where rainfall was sufficient.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/eritrea (686 words)

	Chadic languages
		The Chadic languages are a member of the Afroasiatic phylum, together with Semitic, Ancient Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic.
		Chadic languages are spoken mostly in the Chad Republic, Northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria.
		Languages of the Chadic family make up for about 25% of the total number of languages spoken in Nigeria.
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/chadic.htm (686 words)

	Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa. [Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / Coptic / Cushitic / Berber; Regional languages]. - SEBEOK, T. A. (ED.)
		[Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / Coptic / Cushitic / Berber; Regional languages].
		Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
		SEBEOK, T. Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
	www.antiqbook.nl /boox/oos/90379.shtml (686 words)

	v04.n017
		In the Semitic languages, this still shows up as a contrast between apical stops and fricatives (d, d.; t, t.; z, z.; s, s.); this contrast, which is termed "emphatic", is realized in a number of different ways.
		I'd rather stick with approaches like yours, in which the fact that some languages have only one of the phonemes (either trill, /r/, or lateral, /l/) of this subset of the alveolar set, is just a mere and widespread typological feature, with no (necessary) historical implications.
		Every language must be taken on its own terms; I'm sure many French- and German-speakers find it risible that English speakers can't manage the difference between (what is spelled in French as) ou and u.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V04/v04.n017 (686 words)

	Hamitic languages on Encyclopedia.com
		subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia.
		The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/IX1-H1amiticl.asp (686 words)

	Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa. [Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / Coptic / Cushitic / Berber; Regional languages]. - SEBEOK, T. A. (ED.)
		[Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / Coptic / Cushitic / Berber; Regional languages].
		Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
		SEBEOK, T. Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
	www.antiqbook.nl /boox/oos/90379.shtml (686 words)

	Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
		The earliest branching, which includes most of the known Semitic languages, is called West Semitic; the part that remained after this branching, East Semitic, essentially includes only Akkadian.
		West Semitic comprises three branches: the modern South Arabian languages; the ancient and modern languages of Ethiopia; and Central Semitic.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /61/10.html (686 words)

	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 earliest branching, which includes most of the known Semitic languages, is called West Semitic; the part that remained after this branching, East Semitic, essentially includes only Akkadian.
		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.
	bartleby.com /61/10.html (686 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Afro-Asiatic
		West Semitic is further divided into Northern and Southern West Semitic, and includes such languages as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Maltese, and Punic.
		The Afro-Asiatic language family was formerly called Semitic-Hamitic, or, occasionally, Hamito-Semitic.
		The Semitic branch is divided into East and West sub-branches, and is found in both the Near East and in north Africa.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semhamfh.htm (161 words)

	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.
		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.
		It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semite2h.htm (1306 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Afro-Asiatic
		West Semitic is further divided into Northern and Southern West Semitic, and includes such languages as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Maltese, and Punic.
		The Afro-Asiatic language family was formerly called Semitic-Hamitic, or, occasionally, Hamito-Semitic.
		You have reached the Afro-Asiatic page 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.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/semhamfh.htm (161 words)

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