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North Semitic alphabet — the earliest fully developed alphabetic writing system. It was used in Syria as early as the 11th century BC and is probably ancestral, either directly or indirectly, to all subsequent alphabetic scripts, with the possible exception of… … Universalium
Semitic Epigraphy — • Discussion of the science by this name Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Semitic Epigraphy Semitic Epigraphy † … Catholic encyclopedia
SEMITIC LANGUAGES — SEMITIC LANGUAGES, the name given by A.L. Schloezer in 1781 to the language family to which Hebrew belongs because the languages then reckoned among this family (except Canaanite) were spoken by peoples included in Genesis 10:21–29 among the sons … Encyclopedia of Judaism
North Syrian Arabic — Spoken in Syria Language family Afro Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic … Wikipedia
North Mesopotamian Arabic — Spoken in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey Native speakers 6,300,000 (date missing) Language family Afro Asiatic … Wikipedia
NORTH CAROLINA — NORTH CAROLINA, state in S.E. U.S. Its population in 2000 was 8,049,313, of which the Jewish population was estimated at 26,500. Jews appeared in early colonial times, but a community did not develop until the late antebellum era, a trend that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… … Universalium
Semitic languages — Infobox Language family name=Semitic region=Middle East, North Africa, Northeast Africa and Malta familycolor=Afro Asiatic child1=East Semitic (extinct) child2=West Semitic child3=South Semitic iso2=semThe Semitic languages are a language family… … Wikipedia
Semitic — In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical Shem , Hebrew: שם, translated as name , Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages.This family includes… … Wikipedia
Semitic root — The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or radicals (hence also the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the formation of actual words by adding the… … Wikipedia
