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| | Hebrew language |
 | | Finally, Arabic, being the language of numerous Mizrahic and Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Arab countries as well as of the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, has also had an important influence on Hebrew. | | | Hebrew was also used as a language of communication among Jews from different countries, particularly for the purpose of international trade. | | | Hebrew is spoken primarily in Israel, but it is spoken in many areas where there is a large Jewish populations, especially in Australia, Canada, Germany, Panama, United Kingdom, and the United States. |
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http://www.bidprobe.com/en/wikipedia/h/he/hebrew_language.html
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| | Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink |
| | It's a sub-category of Category:Ashkenazi Jews (as Yiddish was the language of the Ashkenazi Jews only) which is a sub-category of Category:Jews which is a sub-category of Category:Jews and Judaism. | | | The related languages might be partially covered by discussion and partially be links, links not oly to discussion of the language found in old inscriptions (such a Moabite, Ammonite, and Philistine inscriptions) but also to partially Hebrew languages like Yiddish. | | | This runs counter to the teachings of Judaism that the ancient Hebrews are the ancestors and direct progenitors of today's Jews. |
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http://simshalom.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_simshalom_archive.html
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| | Introduction to Ethiopic |
| | Hebrew and Arabic have been, respectively, the languages of Judaism and Islam. | | | Beginning with the establishment of the Jewish state in Israel in 1948, Hebrew is again a spoken language. | | | Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Amorite were spoken from about 3000 to 2000 BC in Palestine, Phoenicia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.ethiopic.com/introdct.htm
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| | Semitic languages - Biocrawler definition:Semitic languages - Biocrawler |
| | With the emergence of Islam, the ascendancy of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language - Arabic - the official language of an empire stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. | | | Descendants of Aramaic continue to be spoken by small minorities in the mountains of northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and Syria, while an older descendant of Aramaic, Syriac, is used liturgically by many Iraqi Christians. | | | Both are official languages of their respective countries, while Ge'ez remains the liturgical language for Christians there. |
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http://www.biocrawler.com/biowiki/Semitic_language
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| | This expresses in the form of genealogy the human geography of early Israel: the Canaanites were the recent inhabitants of much of the land that became Israel. | | | Concerted action of Canaan’s rulers was rare, leaving the countryside vulnerable to Philistine invasion and permitting in the end the development of the ancient state of Israel. | | | Canaanite enclaves were incorporated into the population of Israel. |
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http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/canaan.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Canaanite languages |
| | Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. | | | The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. | | | The main sources for study of Canaanite languages are the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and inscriptions such as: The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canaanite-languages
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| | Sacred Names, Definitions, Languages, What is God's Name? |
| | According to scholars qualified to comment on the subject of ancient languages, and according to the archaeological record, such speculation is in error. | | | Something that is overlooked in the theory of Hebrew as the 'original' language of man, is that languages are named after the groups which speak them. | | | Groups are not named after the language which they speak. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1611/name9.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | Canaanite was spoken in Biblical times in the land then called Canaan, now Israel. | | | An Arab farmer found a tablet in his field in 1928 which shortly led to the discovery of Ugarit, and a number of tablets written in Akkadian, Mitanni, and Sumerian, as well as Ugaritic. | | | updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | Canaanite languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The letter X probably started as a picture sign of a fish, such as is found in the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing which was used in about 1500 BC on the Sinai Peninsula (2). | | | Comprehensive account of an ancient Canaanite people of the Middle East called the Phoenicians. | | | Phoenician is very close to Hebrew and Moabite, with which it forms a Canaanite subgroup of the Northern Central Semitic... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9019902?&query=canaanite
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| | Afro-Asiatic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed to link Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg; but his suggestion was largely ignored. | | | All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right. | | | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
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| | Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach" |
| | Tigrinya-speakers are mostly Orthodox Christians, but there is also a sizable number of Muslims (known as Jabarti) who are Tigrinya-speakers. | | | This language is now by the accidents of history, a post-creole and the national language of Ethiopia. | | | Amharic speakers are mainly Orthodox Christians, but the number of followers of other beliefs is significant, especially among non-native-speakers. |
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http://www.abyssiniagateway.net/info/bender.html
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| | Canaanite languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | This seems to be an innovation of Canaanite. | | | The main sources for study of Canaanite languages are the Hebrew Bible ((The Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings) Tanakh), and inscriptions such as: | | | The first person pronoun being 'ʾnk' (אנכ - anok(i)) (versus Aramaic - ʾnʾ/ʾny) - which is similiar to (An ancient branch of the Semitic languages) Akkadian; this is a common retention from proto- (A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa) Afro-Asiatic. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/C/Ca/Canaanite_languages.htm
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| | Ugaritic |
| | The Ugaritic language is known to us only in the form of writings found in the lost city of Ugarit in Syria since its discovery by French archaeologists in 1928. | | | However, from the perspective of linguistic taxonomy, it is not viewed as a Canaanite language; rather, it is a close relative of the proto-language from which the languages termed Canaanite descend, and was spoken at about the same time as that language. | | | Ugaritic was used by a Canaanite culture, and the use of the term 'Canaanite' to refer to the Ugaritic language is sometimes found. |
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http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Ugaritic
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| | Further, it provides a most important source of material that is closely parallel in its literary forms and religious content to that of the later Canaanite world with which ancient Israel was not only closely related culturally but also in intimate contact. | | | Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic dialect more closely related in many respects to the later Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic than either the East Semitic dialects of Akkadian or the Southwest Semitic languages of the Arabic and Ethiopic regions. | | | In addition to a working knowledge of Hebrew, study of at least one other Semitic language is advised. |
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http://www.fuller.edu/sot/ecds/981/LG533-833_Bush.html
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| | Balak - Dr. Zvi Betzer |
| | Ugaritic is generally viewed today as a northwestern Semitic language, but there is still some controversy as to the exact branch of Semitic tongues to which it belongs. | | | [3] The language of biblical poetry has been studied extensively, [1] in addition to the thorough descriptions of it in scientific grammars of biblical Hebrew. | | | Bible exegetes, from Saadiah Gaon through the last of the later medieval commentators, attempted to clarify the meaning of words that occur uniquely in the Bible (hapax legomena), [2] to this purpose even turning to post-biblical strata of the language (primarily Mishnaic Hebrew, or "the language of the Sages"). |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/balak/bet.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Afro-Asiatic |
| | West Semitic is further divided into Northern and Southern West Semitic, and includes such languages as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Maltese, and Punic. | | | You have reached the Afro-Asiatic page which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. | | | The Semitic branch is divided into East and West sub-branches, and is found in both the Near East and in north Africa. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semhamfh.htm
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| | William Fulco Curriculum Vitae - Classics and Archaeology Department |
| | Lectures included: "The Coinage of the Ancient Near East," "The Origins of the Hebrew Language," "Male and Female in the Ancient Near Eastern Pantheons," "The History, Culture and Religion of the Canaanites Before the Israelite Conquest," and "Jewish Wisdom in Christian Origins." | | | Research for publication in Afroasiatic linguistics: special interest in evidence (linguistic, archaeological and otherwise) documenting the Central Saharan origin of the Afroasiatic language families. | | | Most ancient Near Eastern languages including cuneiform and hieroglyphics. |
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http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/classics/wfulco.shtml
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| | Canaanite |
| | Canaanite Languages are generally those thought to constitute the North Central branch of Northwest Afroasiatic. | | | Canaanite can describe anything pertaining to Canaan and in particular its Language. | | | In its widest terms it may include any of the following, though most commonly Aramaic & Punic are alternatively categorised as Eastern & Southern Central Northwest Afroasiatic respectively. |
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http://www.portaljuice.com/canaanite.html
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| | The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya. | | | These languages all exhibit a pattern of words consisting of triconsonantal roots, with vowel changes, prefixes, and suffixes used to inflect them. | | | Semitic languages are a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages. |
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http://www.informationclub.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic_language.html
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| | ClayGate 490 : Other languages |
| | Suite101.com : 491 - East Indo-European and Celtic languages | | | Easton Languages Online : Russian Read & Write | | | Easton Languages Online : Russian - Listen to Russian |
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http://library.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/irs/webcat/490.htm
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