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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 · Antisemitism in the Moslem World. Highlights the unprecedentedness of Holocaust denial expressed by the head of a state, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, whose denial is at the center of a foreign policy agenda that wishes to use its nuclear program to destroy Israel. Küntzel views Holocaust denial as an extreme form of antisemitism.
2 days ago · A site about the digital and academic study of the ancient Near East, especially Semitic languages and epigraphy.
4 days ago · The Semitic languages are spoken primarily in the northern and central parts of the country; they include Geʿez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Gurage, and Hareri. Geʿez, the ancient language of the Aksumite empire, is used today only for religious writings and worship in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church .
1 day 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. [ 73 ]
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5 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
3 days ago · Most scholars agree with Christopher Rollston about the type of script, but he suggests that the language may not be Hebrew. The lexemes, or word roots, could come from one of several Semitic languages.
