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2 days ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
- Afroasiatic Languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...
- West Semitic
The grouping supported by Semiticists like Robert Hetzron...
- East Semitic
Historically, it is believed that the linguistic situation...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
3 days ago · Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in the area c. 2000 BC (the exact date is debated), [4] but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Akkadian-speaking Mesopotamian states such as Assyria and Babylonia until the 1st century AD.
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3 days ago · Translate basic Akkadian passages and sentences into English; Identify and explain basic Akkadian grammar, vocabulary and syntax; Comprehend basic Akkadian stylistic techniques;
2 days ago · Ashurbanipal (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀, romanized: Aššur-bāni-apli, meaning "Ashur is the creator of the heir") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria.
In the beginning of this era, the Sumerian language, which had once been the dominant language of Southern Mesopotamia, died out as a spoken language. It had been gradually replaced by Akkadian, a Semitic language related to Arabic and Hebrew, over the course of several centuries.
3 days ago · Akkadian language was replaced by the more complex Aramaic language. There are Aramaic speakers, but none from the country it originated from, Aram, which fell to the Assyrians in ancient times. Ironically, despite its destruction, Assyrians even used Aramaic as a second language because of its status as the lingua franca in the Middle East.
5 days ago · Map is showing how many articles of each European language there were (as of January 2019). 1 square represents 10,000 articles. Languages with less than 10,000 articles are represented with one square.
