pp semi indef small yes Image Semitic languages.svg thumb 250px Map showing the distribution of Semitic languages In linguistics and ethnology , Semitic from the Bible Biblical Shem , lang he , translated ... origin, now called the Semitic languages . This family includes the ancient and modern forms of Akkadian ... distribution. Origin The term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic ... Semites , Volume XIII ref The word Semitic is an adjective derived from Shem , one of the three ... is Semite . The term anti Semitic or anti Semite overwhelmingly refers to Jews only. It was coined ... of Anti Semitism , Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 ref The concept of Semitic peoples is derived ... them was therefore named Semitic by linguists. However, the Canaan ites and Amorite s also spoke a language belonging to this family, and are therefore also termed Semitic in linguistics, despite ... usually thought to descend from these spoke languages that were not Semitic. The hypothetical Proto Semitic language, ancestral to historical Semitic languages in the Middle East, is thought to have been ... bayesian analysis identifying an origin for Semitic languages in the Levant around 5,750 Before Present ... C, Assefa S, Mulligan CJ. 2009 . Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East. Proc Biol Sci. 276 1668 2703 10. doi 10.1098 ... The Semitic language family is also considered a component of the larger Afroasiatic macro family of languages. Identification of the hypothetical proto Semitic region of origin is therefore dependent ... Semitic peoples Image Semitic map fr.png thumb Approximate distribution of Semitic language around 1 A.D. The following is a list of ancient Semitic peoples. Akkadians &mdash migrated into Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BC and Amalgamation history amalgamate with non Semitic Mesopotamian Sumerian ... South Arabian speaking peoples Sabaeans of Yemen &mdash 9th to 1st c. BC Ethiopian Semitic languages ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Romanization schemes for Proto Semitic and various Semitic languages Semitic abjad s Romanization of Arabic ISO 233 DIN 31635 Romanization of Hebrew ISO 259 Northwest Semitic abjad See also Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian Semitic abjad Descendants of the Semitic abjad Cuneiform Transliteration Proto Sinaitic alphabet Category Romanization Writingsystem stub ... more details
Infobox language family name Semitic region Middle East , North Africa , Horn of Africa Northeast Africa and Malta familycolor Afro Asiatic child1 East Semitic languages East Semitic extinct child2 Central Semitic languages Central Semitic child3 South Semitic iso2 sem iso5 sem map File Semitic languages.svg center thumb 300px map caption Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. File ... language Akkadian , found in Amarna . The Semitic languages are a group of related language s whose ... language family. The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are Arabic language Arabic ref ...?code heb ref and Aramaic about 2.2 million . Semitic languages are attested in written form from a very ... cuneiform script cuneiform . The other scripts used to write Semitic languages are alphabet ic ... alphabet South Arabian , and Ge ez alphabet s. Maltese language Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet and the only official Semitic language of the European Union . History Origins Main Proto Semitic Image Targum.jpg right thumb 200px 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew ... ez language Ge ez Ethiopia & Eritrea The Semitic family is a member of the larger Afroasiatic languages ..., the ancestors of Proto Semitic speakers are believed by many to have first arrived in the Middle ... sees Semitic originating between the Nile Delta and Canaan as the northernmost branch of Afroasiatic ... of Ethiopic Semitic a later back migration . However, an opposing theory is that Afroasiatic originated in the Middle East, and that Semitic is the only branch to have stayed put this view is supported ... 1680c ref A recent bayesian probability Bayesian analysis of alternative Semitic histories supports the latter possibility and identifies an origin of Semitic languages in the Levant around 3,750 ..., Assefa S, Mulligan CJ. 2009 . Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East. Proc Biol Sci. 276 1668 2703 10. doi 10.1098 rspb.2009.0408 ... more details
Image SemiticMuseumHarvard.jpg thumb 250px right The Harvard Semitic Mvsevm The Semitic Museum at Harvard University was founded in 1889 , and moved into its present location at 6 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1903. From the beginning, it was the home of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, a departmental library, a repository for research collections, a public educational institute, and a center for archaeological exploration. Among the Museum s early achievements were the first scientific excavations in the Holy Land at Samaria in 1907 1912 and excavations at Nuzi and Tell el Khaleifeh in the Sinai , where the earliest alphabet was found. The Museum s artifacts include pottery , cylinder seal s, sculpture , coin s, clay tablet cuneiform tablet s, and Egyptian mummy sarcophagi . Many are from museum sponsored excavations in Israel , Jordan , Iraq , Egypt , Cyprus , and Tunisia . The museum holds a replica of the Merneptah stele , as well as a full scale model of an Iron Age Israelite house. The Museum is dedicated to the use of these collections for the teaching, research, and publication of Near Eastern archaeology, history, and culture. External links http www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu Semitic Museum official site http www.nelc.fas.harvard.edu icb icb.do Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard coord 42 22 41 N 71 06 50 W source kolossus ptwiki display title Category Harvard University Category Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category University museums in Massachusetts Category Archaeology museums in the United States Category Egyptological collections in the United States US museum stub he pt Museu Sem tico de Harvard ... more details
The root linguistics 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 derivation of actual words by adding the vowels and non root consonants or transfix es which go with a particular morphological category around the root consonants, in an appropriate way, generally following specific patterns. It is a peculiarity of Semitic linguistics that a large majority of these consonantal roots are triliterals although there are a number of quadriliterals , and in some languages also biliterals . Triconsonantal roots A triliteral or triconsonantal root lang he , transl he shoresh , lang ar , transl ar ALA jadhr thul thy is a root containing a sequence of three consonants. The following are some of the forms which can be derived from the triconsonantal root K T B k t b general overall meaning to write in Hebrew and Arabic class wikitable Akkadian language Verb patterns Semitological abbreviation Hebrew grammar Root and binyan Hebrew name Arabic grammar Stem formation Arabic name Morphological category Hebrew Form Arabic form Approximate translation rowspan 5 G verb stem rowspan 5 Pa al or Qal rowspan 5 fa ala br lang ar br Stem I 3rd. masc. sing perfect katabh lang he kataba lang ar he wrote 1st. plur. perfect katabhnu lang he katabn lang ar we wrote 3rd. masc. sing. imperfect yikhtobh lang he yaktubu lang ar he writes, will write 1st. plur. imperfect nikhtobh lang he naktubu ... II and stem V forms of triliteral roots . Traditionally in the Semitic languages, forms with more ... of the situation in early Semitic, where only one consonant was allowed , and this has opened the door ... External links http www.semiticroots.net Semitic Roots Repository http www.studyquran.co.uk PRLonline.htm ... morphology Category Semitic linguistics ar br Gwrizienn deirc hensonennel cy Gwreiddyn ... more details
Semitic Neopaganism also Canaanite Neopaganism, Hebrew Neopaganism, Jewish Neopaganism, Judeo Paganism is the revival, mostly United States US based, of religious traditions deriving from Ancient Semitic religion . In practice, there are a number of minor Neopagan movements that revive Iron Age Canaanite religion . The polytheistic mainstream religious practice in Canaan, and especially in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah during the 10th to 7th centuries BCE, is evident from the writings of the Nevi im biblical prophets even though these texts are written from the point of view of the Yahwism Yahwist faction . The notion of historical Israelite or Jewish polytheism has been popularized in the 1960s by Raphael Patai in The Hebrew Goddess , focusing on the cult of female goddess es such as the cult of Asherah in the Temple of Solomon . During the 1970s growth of Neopaganism in the United States , a number of minor Canaanite or Israelite oriented groups emerged, mostly containing syncretism syncretistic elements from western occultism . Thus, Ordo Templi Astartes OTA , founded in Pasadena, California, merged Hermetism Hermetic elements taken from rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn with Phoenician and Canaanite and Israelite themes. ref Carroll Poke Runyon, Seasonal Rites of Baal and Astarte, The Church of Hermetic Sciences, 1999. ref Jewish Neopaganism specifically remains associated with Jewish feminism , focussing on the goddess cults of the Israelites. ref Jenny Kien, Reinstating the Divine Woman in Judaism 2000 , ISBN 9781581127638. ref Since the mid 1990s to early 2000s, some Canaanite Neopagan groups have formed Cybersect online , such as Lilinah Biti Anat s Qadash Kinahnu LevantPagan group ref http kinahnu.org http web.archive.org web 20091026205852 http www.geocities.com SoHo Lofts 2938 templetoc.html archive ref and Tess Dawson s Natib Qadish CanaanitePaganism group . ref http canaanitepath.com introduction.htm historynq ref The most notable group ... more details
Semitic Action lang he , HaPeulah Hashemit was a small Israeli political group of the 1950s and 1960s which sought the creation of a regional federation encompassing Israel and its Arab neighbors. ref name tikkun cite journal last Diamond first James S. year 1990 title We Are Not One A Post Zionist Perspective. journal Tikkun magazine Tikkun volume 5 issue 2 pages 107 url http docs.google.com gview?a v&q cache u5iG5WrE5J8J www.tikkun.org mediagallery download.php 3Fmid 3D20090505142537689 22We Are Not One A Post Zionist Perspective. 22&hl en&gl us&pid bl&srcid ADGEESgTWzHS7FvDOoPppUaA5svzLFaOkhaHGmK VbqxkEaohgC EHY9CrUjeu2iEdrkWynaIxhJh8Yf37 oYJHSRNuOoQKUp wU1jOZB1zoWhg8FNFPi7wDuV1uo1hCgSJw pvEMH &sig AFQjCNE4qzSmJWJqAhPLUxz1o7u1Lt dvQ ref ref name enc cite book last Hattis Rolef first Susan title Encyclopaedia Judaica chapter YELLIN MOR Friedman , NATHAN url http www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org jsource judaica ejud 0002 0021 0 21240.html ref Created in 1956, ref name enc the group s key members were Uri Avnery , Natan Yellin Mor , and Boaz Evron ref name shavit149 Shavit 149 ref , with other members including Maxim Ghilan , Shalom Cohen politician Shalom Cohen , and Amos Kenan . ref name red151 cite book last Beinin first Joel title Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948 1965 publisher University of California Press year 1990 pages 151 ref Joel Beinin describes the group as a political expression of the Canaanism Canaanite movement which advocated that Hebrew speaking Israelis cut their ties with the Jewish diaspora and integrate into the Middle East as natives of the region on the basis of an anticolonialist alliance with its indigenous Arab inhabitants. ref name dispersion Beinin, Joel 1998 . http www.escholarship.org editions view?docId ft2290045n&chunk.id s1.6.42&toc.depth 1&toc.id ch6&brand ... . Berkeley University of California Press, 1997. ref In December 1960 several members of Semitic ... more details
Refimprove date May 2010 Ab means father in most Semitic languages , sometimes extended to Abba or Aba . Clarify date May 2010 Arabic see Kunya Arabic Ab wikt , from a theoretical, abstract form abawun triliteral aleph Bet letter b waw letter w is Arabic language Arabic for father . The dual is abaw ni or ab ni two fathers or mother and father b i ka meaning thy parents . li ll h i ab ka is an expression of praise, meaning to God is attributable the excellence of your father . As a verb, b w means to become as a father to somebody abawtu or to adopt him as a father ta abb hu or ista b hu . In the construct state , Ab wikt is followed by another word to form a complete name, e.g. Abu Mazen , another name for Mahmoud Abbas . Abu may be used as a Kunya Arabic kunya , an honorific. To refer to a man by his fatherhood of male offspring is polite, so that ab takes the function of an honorific. Even a man that is as yet childless may still be known as ab of his father s name, implying that he will yet have a son called after his father. The combination is extended beyond the literal sense a man may be described as acting as a father in his relation to animals, e. g., Abu Bakr , the father of a camel s foal Abu Huraira, father of kittens. In some cases, a man s enemies will refer to him in such a way to besmirch him, e.g. Abu Jahl, the father of ignorace . A man may be described as being the possessor of some quality, as Abu l Gadl, father of grace, or the graceful one Abu l Fida, father of devotion, or the devout one. An object or a place may be given a nickname, such as Abu l hawl, father of terror, the Sphinx at Giza . Abu l fulus, father of money, is frequently used to refer to a place where rumors have been told of a treasure being hidden there. The Swahili word Bwana , meaning mister, sir, or lord, is derived from the Arabic Abuna , our father. Aramaic The word abba in Aramaic corresponds to the emphatic or definite form of ... more details
Infobox Language family name South Ethiopian Semitic region Ethiopia familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 South Semitic languages South Semitic fam4 Western fam5 Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiopian Semitic child1 Outer South Ethiopian Semitic languages Outer South Ethiopian Semitic child2 Transversal South Ethiopian Semitic languages Transversal South Ethiopian Semitic South Ethiopian Semitic is a group of group of Afro Asiatic languages of Ethiopia . ref Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue Languages of the World . 15th edition. Dallas Summer Institute of Linguistics. ref Notes Reflist References http www.ethnologue.com show family.asp?subid 91897 Ethnologue entry for South Ethiopian Semitic languages External links Category South Semitic languages Category Languages of Ethiopia AfroAsiatic lang stub Ethiopia stub de S d thiosemitische Sprachen hr Ju noetiopski jezici ... more details
Infobox Language family name West Semitic region Middle East and East Africa familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic child1 Central Semitic languages Central Semitic child2 South Semitic languages South Semitic The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub grouping of Semitic languages . One widely accepted analysis, supported by semiticist s like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard , divides the Semitic language family into two branches East Semitic languages Eastern and Western. The former consists of the extinct language extinct Eblaite language Eblaite and Akkadian language Akkadian languages, the latter of the majority of Semitic languages. It consists of the clearly defined sub groups Ethiopic languages Ethiopic , South Arabian languages South Arabian , Arabic language Arabic and Northwest Semitic languages Northwest Semitic this including Hebrew language Hebrew , Aramaic language Aramaic and Ugaritic language Ugaritic . The first two, Ethiopic and South Arabian, show particular common features, and are often grouped together as South Semitic languages South Semitic . The correct classification of Arabic with respect to other Semitic languages is debated. In older classifications, it is grouped with the South Semitic languages. However, Hetzron and Huehnergard connect it more closely with the Northwest Semitic languages, to form Central Semitic languages Central Semitic . Some semiticists continue to argue for the older classification based on the distinctive feature of broken plural s. Some linguists argue that Eteocypriot was a West Semitic language spoken in ancient Cyprus . References Unreferenced date December 2006 Semitic languages Category Semitic languages AfroAsiatic lang stub ar an Luengas semiticas occidentals de Westsemitische Sprachen es Lenguas sem ticas occidentales lv Rietumsem tu valodas mk pt L nguas sem ticas ocidentais ta th ... more details
Infobox Language family name Central Semitic region Middle East and North Africa familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic child1 Northwest Semitic languages Northwest Semitic child2 Arabic languages Arabic The Central Semitic languages are a proposed intermediate group of Semitic languages , comprising Arabic language Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages which include Aramaic language Aramaic , Ugaritic language Ugaritic , and the Canaanite languages of Hebrew language Hebrew and Phoenician language Phoenician . Different classification systems disagree on the precise structure of the group. The most common approach divides it into Arabic and Northwest Semitic, while SIL Ethnologue has South Central Semitic including Arabic and Hebrew vs. Aramaic. The main distinction between Arabic and the Northwest Semitic languages is the presence of broken plural s in the former. The majority of Arabic masculine non human nouns form plurals in this manner called inanimate plural , whereas almost all nouns in the Northwest Semitic languages form their plurals with a Affix suffix . For example, the Arabic bayt house becomes buy t houses the Hebrew bayit house becomes batt m houses . See also Northwest Semitic languages Arabic language Aramaic language Hebrew language Ugaritic language Semitic Languages Proto Semitic language References cite book author Sabatino Moscati title An Introduction to Comparative Grammar of Semitic Languages Phonology and Morphology publisher Harrassowitz Verlag year 1980 isbn 3 447 00689 7 Semitic languages Category Central Semitic languages Category Semitic languages AfroAsiatic lang stub ar an Luengas semiticas centrals es Lenguas sem ticas centrales hr Centralnosemitski jezici lv Centr l s sem tu valodas ms Bahasa bahasa Semitik Tengah pt L nguas sem ticas centrais sh Centralnosemitski jezici ta th ... more details
Infobox Language family name East Semitic region formerly Mesopotamia familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic child1 Akkadian language Akkadian child2 Eblaite language Eblaite The East Semitic languages are one of five fairly uncontroversial divisions of the Semitic languages , the others being Northwest Semitic languages Northwest Semitic , Arabic languages Arabian , South Arabian , and Ethiopic languages Ethiopic . The East Semitic group is attested by two distinct languages, Akkadian ... extinct . They stand apart from other Semitic languages, traditionally called West Semitic, in a number ... of East Semitic languages wandered further east, settling in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium ... millennium BC second millennium BCE , East Semitic languages, in particular Akkadian language Akkadian , had come to dominate the region. They were influenced by the non Semitic Sumerian language and adopted cuneiform writing. Modern understanding of the phonology of East Semitic languages can only ... Proto Semitic language Proto Semitic . Most striking is the loss of the glottal stop , or aleph ... of West Semitic languages for example, Akkadian language Akk. b l master Proto Semitic language PS. ba al . Also, East Semitic languages do not possess a series of three back fricative consonant ... of an close mid front unrounded vowel e vowel, where it is not found in other Semitic languages for example, Akkadian language Akk. ekallu palace temple Proto Semitic language PS. haykal ..., Akkadian language Akk. al u three Proto Semitic language PS. transl sem ala . However, the exact ... have been the result of the inadequacies of Sumerian orthography to describe the sounds of Semitic languages rather than their real absence. The word order in East Semitic may also have been influenced by Sumerian, being Subject Object Verb rather than the West Semitic Verb Subject Object order. References Huehnergard, J. 1995. Semitic Languages. Pp. 2117 2134 in Civilizations of the Ancient ... more details
Infobox Language family name Ethiopian Semitic region Ethiopia , Eritrea familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 South Semitic fam4 Western child1 North Ethiopian Semitic languages North Ethiopian Semitic child2 South Ethiopian Semitic languages South Ethiopian Semitic Ethiopian Semitic also known as Ethiopian, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic, or Afro Semitic is a language group, which together with Old South Arabian forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages. The languages are spoken in both Ethiopia and Eritrea . Some linguists have begun calling this group Afro Semitic to avoid the exclusive focus on Ethiopia, but its use is not widespread. While focused on Semitic languages as the only branch of the broader Afroasiatic languages that has its distribution outside Africa, a recent study proposed through the use of Bayesian computational phylogenetic techniques that contemporary Ethiosemitic languages of Africa reflect a single introduction of early Ethiosemitic from southern Arabia approximately 2800 years ago , and that this single introduction of Ethiosemitic underwent Rapid Diversification within Ethiopia and Eritrea. ref name Semitic Bayesian http rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org content 276 1668 2703.abstract Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East. ref This is generally supported by the distribution and variance of Haplogroup J1c3 Y DNA haplogroup J1c3 Citation needed date March 2011 North Tigrinya language Tigre language Ge ez language Dahlik language newly discovered ...?subid 91892 Ethnologue entry for Ethiopian Semitic languages http rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org content 276 1668 2703.abstract Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East Semitic languages expanded Western South Category Ethiopian Semitic languages Category Western South Semitic languages Category Languages of Ethiopia ... more details
Infobox Language family name South Semitic region Yemen , Oman , Ethiopia , Eritrea familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic child1 Eastern Modern South Arabian languages Modern South Arabian child2 Western Old South Arabian , Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiopian South Semitic is a commonly accepted branch of the Semitic languages . Semitic itself is a branch of the larger Afro Asiatic language family found in northern and eastern Africa and southwestern Asia. South Semitic is divided ... , and Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiopian Semitic , found across the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa , mainly in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea . The Ethiopian Semitic languages have by far the greatest ... have withered at the expense of the more dominant Arabic also a Semitic language for more than ... Semitic languages is widely debated, but is no longer believed to have been Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea ... Semitic Ethiopian languages and Ge ez abugida Ethiopic script in Africa is believed by some to be due ... East and Arabian Peninsula in the form of Proto Semitic language Proto Semitic , since all ... 50, pp. 19 34 ref , suggesting that Semitic may have originated in Ethiopia, has been put into question ... Ehret, et al. 2009. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 276 no. 1665 June 22 ref List Western South Semitic Old South Arabian languages extinct, formerly believed to be the linguistic ancestors of modern South Arabian Semitic languages, now classified as Eastern South Semitic Sabaean language extinct Minaean language extinct Qatabanian language extinct Hadhramautic language extinct Ethiopic languages Ethio Semitic, Ethiopian Semitic North Ge ez language Ethiopic ... South Semitic main Eastern South Semitic These languages are spoken mainly by small minority populations ... 90980 Ethnologue entry for South Semitic languages Semitic languages Category South Semitic languages ... more details
Infobox Language family name Northwest Semitic altname Levantine region concentrated in the Middle East familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 Central Semitic languages Central Semitic ... Canaanite languages Canaanite The Northwest Semitic languages form a medium level division of the Semitic languages Semitic language family . The languages of this group are spoken by approximately ... language Aramaic . Semiticists now group the Northwest Semitic languages together with Arabic language Arabic to form the larger Central Semitic languages Central Semitic group. ref http multitree.linguistlist.org trees 14902 599138 Linguist List Central Semitic composite tree with Aramaic and Canaanite grouped together in Northwest Semitic, and Arabic and Old South Arabian as sisters br ... br Rubin, Aaron D. 2007. The Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages, Language and Linguistics Compass ... Languages Cambridge, pp. 138 159 . br Faber, Alice. 1997. Genetic Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages, The Semitic Languages Routledge, pp. 3 15 br Huehnergard, John. 1991. Remarks on the Classification of the Northwest Semitic Languages, The Balaam Text from Deir Alla Re evaluated Brill, pp. 282 ... 4, pp. 155 170. br Voigt, Rainer M. 1987. The Classification of Central Semitic, Journal of Semitic Studies 32 1 19. br Goldenberg, Gideon. 1977. The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia and Their Classification ... show family.asp?subid 54 16 Ethnologue Central Semitic entry with Arabic and Canaanite grouped together against Aramaic br The Ethnologue classification is based on Hetzron, Robert. 1987. Semitic ... Semitic was based on cultural and geographical principles , not on principles of empirical historical ... and Aramaic, under the rubric Central Semitic..., and this classification is certainly ... Ugaritic language is the earliest witness to Northwest Semitic. Phonology Phonologically , Ugaritic ... o distinguishes Canaanite from Ugaritic. Also, in the Canaanite group, the series of Semitic interdental ... more details
Infobox journal title The Journal of Semitic Studies cover File Journal of Semitic Studies.gif 150px discipline Cultural Studies abbreviated title noeffect abbreviation JSS publisher Oxford University Press country UK publication history noeffect history 1955 present frequency Bi annually website http jss.oxfordjournals.org ISSN 0022 4480 Portal Ancient Near East The Journal of Semitic Studies , in bibliographies typically abbreviated JSS , is an academic journal that was established in 1955 ref http jss.oxfordjournals.org Home page of The Journal of Semitic Studies . ref and has been issued twice a year ever since. From the first issue in 1955 onwards, the journal has included papers on the research of the modern as well as the ancient Near East . The journal maintains a special focus on Semitic languages and the corresponding literatures, and reviews are one of the journal s distinguishing features. The present editorial committee includes P. S. Alexander, G. J. Brooke, A. Christmann, J. F. Healey and P. C. Sadgrove. References Reflist External links Archives of all but the most current issues are http jss.oxfordjournals.org archive available online . DEFAULTSORT Journal of Semitic Studies Category Ancient Near East journals Category Publications established in 1955 Category Area studies journals Category Cultural journals ... more details
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Indo Semitic is a theory that relates Indo European languages Indo European and Semitic languages Semitic .... The term Indo Semitic was first used by Graziadio Isaia Ascoli Graziadio Ascoli Cuny 1943 1 , a leading ... time. In German the term indogermanisch semitisch , Indo Germanic Semitic , has often been used as by Delitzsch ... European . Several phases in the development of the Indo Semitic hypothesis can be distinguished ... were related to the Semitic languages . The first to do so was Johann Christoph Adelung in his work ... in 1836. A succinct history of the Indo Semitic hypothesis is provided by Alan S. Kaye 1985 887 in a review ... Indo European and Semitic goes back some 125 years to Rudolf von Raumer R. von Raumer sup 1 sup but it was Graziadio .... Scholars waited for a systematic study of IE Semitic vocabulary until 1873, when Friedrich ... this was followed in 1881 by James Frederick McCurdy J. McCurdy s Aryo Semitic Speech . Carl Abel C. Abel s 400 page dictionary of Egyptian Semitic IE roots appeared in 1884. Work by 20th century linguists who have investigated the problem more thoroughly with Afro Asiatic and or Semitic data include ... , The positing of a genetic connection between Indo European and Semitic goes back at least as far as Richard Lepsius 1836 . The arguments presented for a relationship between Indo European and Semitic ... M ller argued that the Semitic languages were related to a large group of African languages, which he termed Hamitic . This implied a larger grouping, Indo European Hamito Semitic. However, the concept ... it concerned groupable with Semitic. He named this greatly modified grouping Afroasiatic languages Afroasiatic . In principle, then, Indo European Hamito Semitic was replaced by Indo European ... connection to pursue was that between Indo European and Hamito Semitic or, later, Indo European and Afroasiatic ... and Semitic directly e.g. M ller 1911, Cuny 1943, Bomhard 1975, Levin 1995 . One reason for this seems to be that the study of Semitic had progressed far beyond that of Hamitic or, later, Afroasiatic ... more details
Proto Semitic is the hypothetical proto language of the Semitic languages . Dating The earliest attestations of a Semitic language are in Akkadian language Akkadian , dating to ca. the 23rd century BC ... 2007 02 070205 snake spells.html Ancient Semitic Snake Spells Deciphered in Egyptian Pyramid. ref ... Semitic Urheimat by a majority of scholars. ref Gray, Louis Herbert 2006 Introduction to Semitic ... Mesopotamia as the Semitic homeland were severely undermined by the identification of the non Semitic ... believed to have predated the Semitic culture in Mesopotamia by many centuries. A mainstream view nowadays maintains that the first wave of Semitic speakers infiltrated Mesopotamia in the first half ... . The presence of a non Semitic culture predating the Canaanites in Canaan has not been proven ... History of Phoenicia p.51 ref Given that Proto Semitic would have been an Afroasiatic language, some believe that the first prehistoric speakers of the ancestral Proto Semitic language came from Ethiopia , which would have been the Proto Semitic homeland. ref e.g. A. Murtonen see Fleming, Harold C. 1968 ... Semitic may have been introduced to Ethiopia sometime before the 8th century BC. This is also supported by the presence of nouns in proto Semitic that seemingly make an African origin for the language ... Press ref did not arrive in Africa until nearly two thousand years after Semitic languages were being ... for proto Semitic, due to the flora and fauna described by it, which include oak, pistachio and almond ... 2009 Eblaite , one of the oldest Semitic languages, when deciphered turned out to have almost no non ... . Christopher Ehret argues on this basis that there are two possible homelands for Semitic, Northern Mesopotamia where Western Semitic broke away from Eastern Semitic or the Levant. Ehret states Because of the many indications that non Semitic languages predominated in Mesopotamia and all around ... as the proto Semitic territory, considering the solely African locations of all the rest of the Afrasan ... more details
For the subgroup of Niger Congo languages Atlantic languages The Atlantic languages of Semitic languages Semitic or Semitidic paraphyletic para Semitic origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann . The theory has found no notable acceptance in academic circles, and is criticised as being based on sparse and often misinterpreted data. Theory and lines of argumentation According to Vennemann, Afroasiatic seafarers settled the European Atlantic coast and are to be associated with the European Megalithic Culture . They left a superstratum in the Germanic languages and a substratum in the development of Insular Celtic . He claims that Atlantic Semitic or Semitidic speakers founded coastal colonies beginning in the fifth millennium BC. Thus Atlantic influenced the lexicon and structure of Germanic and the structure of Insular Celtic. According to Vennemann, migrating Indo European speakers encountered non IE speakers in northern Europe who had already named rivers, mountains and settlements in a language he called Vasconic . He considered that there were toponyms on the Atlantic coast that were neither Vasconic nor Indo European. These he considers derive from languages related to the Mediterranean Hamito Semitic group. Vennemann bases his theory on the claim that Germanic languages Germanic Germanic substrate hypothesis words without cognates in other Indo European languages very often belong to semantic fields that are typical for loanword s from a superstratum language, such as warfare, law and communal life. Likewise, he proposes Semitic etymologies for words of unknown or disputed origin for instance he relates the word bee to Egyptian ... language Akkadian weri um copper . Other evidences he adduces for a Semitic superstratum are a Semitic ... his arguments for the existence of a Semitic or Semitidic superstatum in the Germanic languages. He ... more than mere ad hoc sound similarities , and that Vennemann s claims made in reference to Semitic ... more details
Refimprove date February 2010 Middle Eastern deities The term Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic languages Semitic speaking peoples of the Ancient Near East and Northeast Africa . Its origins are intertwined with Mesopotamian mythology . As Semitic itself is a rough, categorical term, the definitive bounds of the term Ancient Semitic religion are likewise only approximate. These traditions, and their Pantheon gods pantheon s, fall into regional categories Canaanite religion s of the Levant , Assyro Babylonian religion strongly influenced by Mesopotamian mythology Sumerian tradition , and Pre Islamic Arabian polytheism . A topic of particular interest is the possible transition of Semitic polytheism into the contemporary understanding of Abrahamic religions Abrahamic monotheism by way of the god El god El , a word for god in Hebrew and cognate to Islam s Allah . Proto Semitic pantheon This is a partial list of possible Proto Semitic deities. Citation needed date February 2010 Abbreviations Ac. Akkadian Babylonian Ug. Ugarit Ugarit religion Ugaritic Pp. Phoenicia Phoenician gods Phoenician Ib. Hebrew Ar. Arabic OSA Old South Arabian Et. Kingdom of Aksum Ethiopic unicode Ilu god Sky god, head of pantheon Ac. tt Ilu tt , Ug. El god il , Pp. unicode l los , Ib. Elohim l Elohim , Ar. Allah All h , OSA unicode l . unicode A iratu tt Ilu tt s wife Ug. unicode a rt , Ib. Asherah A r h , OSA unicode rt . The meaning of the name is unknown. She is also called unicode tt Ilatu tt goddess Ac. tt Ilat tt , Pp. unicode lt , Ar. All t . unicode A taru God of Fertility Ug. unicode tr , OSA unicode tr , Et. unicode Astar sky god . unicode A tartu Goddess of Fertility Ac. Ishtar I tar , Ug. unicode trt , Pp. Astarte unicode trt ... of God in Judaism Proto Indo European religion Prehistoric religion Semitic Neopaganism div col end paganism DEFAULTSORT Ancient Semitic Religion Category Levantine mythology Category Ancient Semitic ... more details
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Infobox Language family name Transversal South Ethiopian Semitic region Ethiopia familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 South Semitic fam4 Western fam5 Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiopian Semitic fam6 South Ethiopian Semitic languages South child1 Amharic Argobba languages Amharic Argobba child2 Harari language Harari East Gurage Transversal South Ethiopian Semitic is a group of group of Afro Asiatic languages of Ethiopia . ref Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue Languages of the World . 15th edition. Dallas Summer Institute of Linguistics. ref Notes Reflist References http www.ethnologue.com show family.asp?subid 91898 Ethnologue entry for Transversal South Ethiopian Semitic languages External links Category Transverse Ethiopian Semitic languages Category Languages of Ethiopia AfroAsiatic lang stub Ethiopia stub ... more details
Notability date July 2009 This is a list of Spanish language Spanish words that come from Semitic languages excluding Arabic language Arabic , which can be found in the article, Arabic influence on the Spanish language . It is further divided into words that come from Akkadian language Akkadian , Aramaic language Aramaic , Hebrew language Hebrew , and finally, words that come from Semitic languages Semitic when the exact source language is unknown. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanword s from other language s. Some of these words have alternate etymology etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish language Spanish words from a different language . List A baco am n de B babel barrab s beca benjam n C c bala camello camita carmelita comino coral D E ed n, F G gachup n gasa gueto H hebreo I israel israelita J jaspe jud o K L lazareto M man mariqu ta mata matorral mes as mirra N O P pascua p rpura Q R rab rabino S s bado s bana saco salmo saquear Satan s sefardita semita s mola sidra simon a sult n T taca o truchim n, dragom n t nica U V W X Y yanqui yeso Z Akkadian language Akkadian Aramaic language Aramaic Hebrew language Hebrew Sabados Semitic languages Semitic See also Linguistic history of Spanish List of English words of Spanish origin References Breve diccionario etimol gico de la lengua espa ola by Guido G mez de Silva ISBN 968 16 2812 8 DEFAULTSORT List Of Spanish Words Of Semitic Origin Category Spanish etymology Semitic Category Spanish words and phrases Semitic Origin Category Semitic loanwords Spanish Category Arabic loanwords Spanish Category Aramaic loanwords Spanish Category Hebrew loanwords Spanish ... more details
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