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- Semite, name given in the 19th century to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans), and Aramaean tribes.
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2 days ago · Semitic-speaking peoples. The following is a list of some modern and ancient Semitic-speaking peoples and nations: Distribution of the Semitic-speaking peoples Central Semitic. Amorites; Arabs. Alawites; Ancient North Arabian-speaking bedouins; Itureans; Nabataeans; Tayy; Thamud – 2nd to 5th centuries AD; Arameans - an ancient Northwest ...
- Afro-AsiaticSemitic
2 days ago · The people now known as Phoenicians were a group of ancient Semitic-speaking peoples that emerged in the Levant in at least the third millennium BC. Phoenicians did not refer themselves as "Phoenicians" but rather are thought to have broadly referred to themselves as "Kenaʿani", meaning Canaanites.
2 days ago · To the west were the tent-dwelling Martu, ancient Semitic-speaking peoples living as pastoral nomads tending herds of sheep and goats. To the south was the land of Dilmun, a trading state associated with the land of the dead and the place of creation. To the east were the Elamites, a rival people with whom the Sumerians were frequently at war.
- c. 5500 – c. 1800 BC
May 5, 2024 · Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group [2] [3] [4] [5] associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and...
Apr 25, 2024 · Published Apr 25, 2024. Canaan was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East ( today’s Middle East) during the late 2nd millennium BC. The ...
Apr 25, 2024 · At one time the Hittites were one of three superpowers in the ancient world. Tudhaliya IV (1237–1209 B.C.E.) ruled over the Hittite Kingdom during its heyday and is depicted here on a rock carving from the Hittites’ sacred open-air shrine at Yazilikaya, less than a mile from the Hittite capital of Hattusa in present-day Turkey.
May 5, 2024 · Amhara, people of the Ethiopian central highlands and one of the major ethnolinguistic groups in Ethiopia. The language of the Amhara is known as Amharic and belongs to the Semitic language family. The Amhara inhabit much of present-day Ethiopia and have long dominated the history of the region.
