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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Semitic_languagesSemitic languages - Wikipedia

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   The proto-Semitic three-case system (nominative, accusative and genitive) with differing vowel endings (-u, -a -i), fully preserved in Qur'anic Arabic (see ʾIʿrab), Akkadian and Ugaritic, has disappeared everywhere in the many colloquial forms of Semitic languages. Modern Standard Arabic maintains such case distinctions, although they are ...

   • Afroasiatic Languages

     The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...

   • West Semitic

     The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping...

   • East Semitic

     Modern understanding of the phonology of East Semitic...

   • Ethiopian Semitic Languages

     Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...

   • Proto-Semitic Language

     Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...

   • Generations of Noah

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   Where did the term 'Semitic' come from?

   • The term "Semitic" is borrowed from the Bible (Gene. x.21 and xi.10–26). It was first used by the Orientalist A. L. Schlözer in 1781 to designate the languages spoken by the Aramæans, Hebrews, Arabs, and other peoples of the Near East (Moscati et al., 1969, Sect. 1.2). Before Schlözer, these languages and dialects were known as Oriental languages.

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   What are Semitic languages?

   • The term 'Semitic languages' was coined by Carl Brockelmann in 1908. He separated Fritz Hommel's 1883 classification into three main groups: Northwest Semitic (including Canaanite and Aramaic), East Semitic (Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Eblaite), and Southwest Semitic (Arabic, Old South Arabian languages, and Abyssinian).

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   What is the difference between Proto-Semitic and West Semitic languages?

   • Proto-Semitic had an additional form, the jussive, which was distinguished from the preterite only by the position of stress: the jussive had final stress while the preterite had non-final (retracted) stress. The West Semitic languages significantly reshaped the system.

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   What are the grammatical features of a Semitic language?

   • The Semitic languages share a number of grammatical features, although variation — both between separate languages, and within the languages themselves — has naturally occurred over time. The reconstructed default word order in Proto-Semitic is verb–subject–object (VSO), possessed–possessor (NG), and noun–adjective (NA).

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Semitic_peopleSemitic people - Wikipedia

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   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 Phoenicians.

4. www.britannica.com › topic › Proto-Semitic-languageProto-Semitic language | Britannica

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   , Proto-Chadic or Proto-Semitic), or a hypothetical common sound of origin. Languages are said to be genetically related when they meet two criteria: they match in phonology, vocabulary, and grammar in such a way that they can be systematically related to a common protolanguage, and the matches can…

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Northwest_Semitic_languagesNorthwest Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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   It is not clear whether the Proto-Northwest-Semitic prefix vowel should be reconstructed as *-u-, the form inherited from Proto-Semitic (i.e. *yuqaṭṭil-u), or as *-a-, which is somewhat supported by evidence from Ugaritic and Hebrew (*yaqaṭṭil-u).

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   The reconstruction of Proto-Semitic (PS) was originally based primarily on Arabic, whose phonology and morphology (particularly in Classical Arabic) is extremely conservative, and which preserves as contrastive 28 out of the evident 29 consonantal phoneme.

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   Aug 16, 2020 · Evidence indicates that all Semitic languages have developed from a common language in use long before writing (and hence unattested), which Semitists term Proto-Semitic. This would have been a member of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, along with sister languages, probably including some ancestor of Egyptian (Proto-Egyptian?).

8. www.sciencedirect.com › semitic-languagesSemitic Languages - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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   Proto-Semitic is a scholarly reconstruction that suggests a common source to which all the known languages of the Semitic language family can be traced. Although the Semitic languages are thought to descend from some common ancestor, Proto-Semitic is not that ancestor; the term is not meant to represent a language that was ever spoken.