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Look up semitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South

Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including

The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages

and Mandaeism. Ancient Semitic religion, polytheistic pre-Abrahamic religions practiced by Ancient Semitic peoples Semitic neopaganism, religions based

first by Steinschneider, who challenged Renan on account of his 'anti-Semitic prejudices' [i.e., his derogation of the Semites as a race]." Psychologist

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Semitic languages. There is no consensus regarding the

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term

The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root)

Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form