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4 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.
3 days ago · Aramaic belongs to the Northwest group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite and Ugaritic.
2 days ago · Semitic languages are structured according to consonantal forms, whereas cuneiform, when functioning phonetically, was a syllabary, binding consonants to particular vowels. Furthermore, no Semitic words could be found to explain the syllabic values given to particular signs.
5 days ago · The North Semitic alphabet was so constant for many centuries that it is impossible to think that there had been any material changes in the preceding two to three centuries. Moreover, the North Semitic languages , based as they are on a consonantal root (i.e., a system in which the vowels serve mainly to indicate grammatical or similar changes ...
- An alphabet is a set of graphs or characters used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets, the characters are arranged...
- The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta. It was first used, in its Latin form, alphabetum, by Tert...
- The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters. All are consonants, though four of them (alef, he, waw, and yod) are also employed to represent long vo...
- The Arabic alphabet probably originated some time in the 4th century CE, but the earliest known extant Arabic writing is a trilingual inscription—G...
- The Latin-Turkish alphabet was introduced in 1928 and became general throughout Turkey in 1930. It contains 29 letters, of which two vowels (ö and...
4 days ago · The native literary work, written “directly” in the native language, is a one-time, or, in other words, a write-once statement. The essence of the single original work is its assumed uniqueness. […]. With translations, the reverse occurs. A translation of a foreign-language work is always one of many possible expressions.
3 days ago · /æmˈhɛrɪk/ IPA guide. Definitions of Amharic. noun. the dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a Semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara have been in close contact. synonyms: Ethiopian language. see more. adjective. related to or characteristic of or written in Amharic. “the Amharic language”
2 days ago · Chapters 1 to 2:4a are in Hebrew; 2:4b to chapter 7 is in Aramaic; and chapters 8 to 12 are in Hebrew. Both languages are closely related in the Semitic family of languages, but the Aramaic of the Bible has some important differences from biblical Hebrew, especially in the way that verbs are used and in certain noun patterns.
