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 Semitic Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
Semitic languages are also spoken in Malta and on some islands in the Indian Ocean.
There is no historical evidence to support the existence of this biblical character, although modern research has found genetic links between Arabs and ethnic Jews, indicating that they decend from a common population [1].
While the term itself covers a geographical area from the Sinai to Iraq, and from Syria to Yemen, Semitic languages stretch all the way along the southern Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, into Mali and along the coast of the Red Sea all the way to Somalia in Africa.
http://www.wikiwhat.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic.html   (408 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly Opinion Semites and anti-Semites, that is the question
It is not Jews who are being murdered by the thousands by Arab anti- Semitism, but rather Arabs and Muslims who are being murdered by the tens of thousands by Euro- American Christian anti-Semitism and by Israeli Jewish anti-Semitism.
While oppression of, discrimination against, and hatred of communities of Jews qua Jews are found in many periods of European history, the basis for this hatred is different from modern anti-Semitism, as its inspirational sources are not rational science and biology or Enlightenment philology, but religious and other political and economic considerations that scapegoated Jews.
But this is different from the spurious claim that "Arabs cannot be anti-Semitic because they are Semites." There are Arabs today who are anti- Jewish, and they borrow their anti-Jewish rhetoric not from the Palestine experience but from European rhetorics of anti-Semitism.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/op63.htm   (1602 words)

  
 SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES
The period in which the Hebrews, the Arabs and the other Semitic nations together formed a single people is so distant that none of them can possibly have retained any tradition of it.
The fantastic notion once in vogue as to the permanence of historical memories among uncivilized races must be wholly abandoned.
Some prominent scholars consider the birthplace of the Semitic race to have been in Arabia.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm   (19947 words)

  
 Semites
Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.
The most prominent Semites today are Arabs and Jews.
However, this would not make either Abraham or Isaac "Israelites." Those who interchange the words "Jew" and Israelite, call Abraham a Jew, even though Abraham was not even an Israelite, and where the word "Jew" is not used in the Bible until 1,000 years AFTER Abraham.
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/semites.htm   (400 words)

  
 Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
The Semitics department is also closely involved with the program in Early Christian Studies, which coordinates offerings in history and theology, and with other departments and programs.
An Internet Researcher Guide to Semitic and Christian Oriental Resources is maintained by CUA librarians and Semitics department faculty and students.
P.T. Daniels and W. Bright (1995): articles on Semitic epigraphic writing; others.
http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/semitics   (2656 words)

  
 Semites, Semitic Religion - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The historic Babylonians, e.g., were Semites; yet they dispossessed an earlier non-Semitic people, and were themselves frequently invaded by other races, such as the Hittites, and even the Egyptians.
This theory does not explain the Semitic origin of the Elamites, except by denial; much less does it account for the location of Arpachshad still farther north.
Last of all, in Palestine, from the very beginning of its historic period, we find an intermingling and confusion of races and religions such as no other Semitic center presents.
http://www.searchgodsword.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7806   (2853 words)

  
 Arab Myths
We have already said that Ishmael himself was half Semite and half Egyptian, now we read that also his wife was an Egyptian, and that he settled in the desert area next to Midyan, which was inhabited by Hamitic peoples.
As we have already said, the Arabians were primarily a Kushite people and that is what they were considered by their Semitic neighbours as well; Ishmael's offspring developed as a Hamitic people for many generations.
Since the time when they began to document their own history, the Semitic influence appears evident because they are ruled by kings, not queens.
http://www.imninalu.net/myths-Arabs.htm   (6817 words)

  
 Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
(The language of the Sumerians, who actually invented cuneiform script, was not Semitic.) Akkadian was spoken in parts of what is today Iraq.
Tigrinya is spoken by some five million people, and thus it vies with modern Hebrew for the position as the third most widely spoken
Among living languages, only Greek can claim a longer continuously documented history.
http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html   (2729 words)

  
 Are all those that criticise Bilderberg Anti-Jewish? How can they be when so few Bilderbergers are Jewish?
One of the first things anyone from the 'left' anarchist, communist or socialist traditions who criticises Bilderberg encounters is the accusation of being taken in by - or even being in league with - anti-Jewish forces from the extreme right.
Exposing the Elite's conspiracy is a deftly challenging task for me. Most Jews (whether Semitic or not) have no concept of this cabal of tyrants.
I steer clear of the expression 'Anti-Semitic' because most Jewish families in the NATO countries are of Eastern European descent and not therefore Semitic (Middle Eastern) Jews.
http://www.bilderberg.org/jewish.htm   (18839 words)

  
 The Semitic New Testament
James Trimm's new web site for the Semitic New Testament Project is the Hebrew/Aramaic New Testament Research Institute.
One of the presumed source documents for use in the Semitic New Testaments, the Syriac Peshitta, is of particular interest for our report.
A number of Aramaic Bible organizations also link to James Trimm's Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism.
http://watch.pair.com/peshitta.html   (10765 words)

  
 Pre-Islamic Arabic Culture
This last period of Semitic history would be its greatest and turn it into what is perhaps the most significant culture of human history.
Some cities, such as Yathrib, become Judaized cities while a large number become Christian—either Monophysite Christianity of Africa and Syria or the eastern Christianity of Byzantium.
No matter what its origin, however, the Arabs experienced Christianity as a Semitic religion.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/PRE.HTM   (1709 words)

  
 Myths & Facts -The Treatment of Jews in Arab/Islamic Countries
The claim that Arabs as "Semites" cannot possibly be anti-Semitic is a semantic distortion that ignores the reality of Arab discrimination and hostility toward Jews.
Dictionaries define the term as: "Theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews" and "Hostility towards Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, economic and political discrimination."
Arabs, like any other people, can indeed be anti-Semitic.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html   (3033 words)

  
 Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
These were the people who brought Semitic speech to the Amhara region, as outlined above.
As the Agew slowly began to fuse with their conquerors, and military and Orthodox Christian missionary campaigns extended ever further - west, south, and east, other linguistic groups were added to the creole brew and it was shifting, but ever based on Semitic lexicon and Cushomotic syntax.
Chadic Berber Ancient Egyptian Semitic Cushitic Omotic ------- -------- ------ Semitic Family ____________________________________________
http://www.abyssiniagateway.net/info/bender.html   (1976 words)

  
 Hamito-Semitic languages
The most satisfactory explanation is that the Hamitic and Semitic groups, despite their divergences, are subfamilies of a single Hamito-Semitic linguistic family, as evidenced by their marked grammatical, lexical, and phonological resemblances.
Another theory holds that the Hamito-Semitic, or Afroasiatic, language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in W Asia.
Traditionally, the Hamito-Semitic language family is said to have two subfamilies: Semitic and Hamitic.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0822546.html   (270 words)

  
 The History of Aramaic
In spite of the pressure of the ruling Arabs to speak Arabic, Aramaic is still spoken today in its many dialects, especially among the Chaldeans and Assyrians.
It was employed by the great Semitic empires, Assyria and Babylon.
THE HISTORY OF ramaic was the language of Semitic peoples throughout the ancient Near East.
http://members.aol.com/assyrianme/aramaic/history.html   (559 words)

  
 Semitic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though no significant common mitochondrial results have been yielded, Y-chromosomal links between Near-Eastern peoples like the Palestinians, Syrians and ethnic Jews have proved fruitful, despite differences contributed from other groups (see Y-chromosomal Aaron).
In a religious context, the term Semitic can refer to the religions associated with the speakers of these languages: thus Judaism, Christianity and Islam are often described as "Semitic religions," though the term Abrahamic religions is more commonly used today.
Wildly successful as second languages far beyond their numbers of contemporary first-language speakers, a few Semitic languages today are the base of the sacred literature of some of the world's great religions, including Islam (Arabic), Judaism (Hebrew and Aramaic), and Orthodox Christianity (Aramaic and Ge'ez).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic   (1195 words)

  
 Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ. Home Page
This link will take you to information on how to participate on the excavation, as well as other details on their finds in recent years.
The White-Levy Publication Project at the Semitic Museum
The Semitic Museum is one of the Harvard University Museums, housing collections of archaeological materials from the Ancient Near East.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic   (518 words)

  
 semitic - Wiktionary
Relating (more narrowly) to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al.
From the English Semite, an 18th century ethnological label derived from the Greek Σημ, Sēm, from the German semitisch, from the Hebrew שֵׂם, Šēm Shem, the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Semitic   (149 words)

  
 Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest
Anti semites will always find excuses for hatred, with or without our help.
Many have expressed the concern that the cartoons we published here will be used out of context by real anti-semites to spread further hate against us.
http://www.boomka.org   (1749 words)

  
 The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Concerning Jupiter, who is in the above called Dapinu (Semitic), and Umun-sig-êa (Sumerian), it has already been noted that he was called Nibiru--according to Jensen, Merodach as he who went about among the stars "pasturing" them like sheep, as stated in the Babylonian story of the Creation (or Bel and the Dragon).
CHAPTER II THE RELIGION OF THE BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS The Sumero-Akkadians and the Semites.
Besides Babylonia and Assyria, he was also worshipped in other parts of the Semitic east, especially at Harran, to which city Abraham migrated, scholars say, in consequence of the patron-deity being the same as at Ur of the Chaldees, where he had passed the earlier years of his life.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/rbaa.htm   (16050 words)

  
 Semitic languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
This collection of laws has been ascribed to the reign of Hammurabi, the sixth and best-known king of Babylon's First dynasty.
Modern Hebrew, the standard language of Israel, is also a Semitic language.
Such modern languages as Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong to the Semitic language group.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9066720   (818 words)

  
 SUMER AND SUMERIAN - LoveToKnow Article on SUMER AND SUMERIAN
49 67; American Journal of Semitic Languages, xix.
In this point also Sumerian is in accord with all other agglutinative idioms.
Scholars of this opinion believe that this language, which has been arbitrarily called " Akkadian " in England and " Sumerian " on the European continent and in America, was primitively the speech of the pre-Semitic inhabitants of the Euphratean region who were conquered by the invading Semites.
http://55.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SU/SUMER_AND_SUMERIAN.htm   (2048 words)

  
 The Semitic Etymological Dictionary
Area of research: Semitic, Hebrew, Afrasian (Semito-Hamitic) and Sumerian etymology; Berber and Canarian; linguistic data for ethnocultural history; Jewish model of survival throughout history.
SED will also create a groundwork for reconstruction of the ethnogenesis, migrations and socio-cultural history of ancient Semitic peoples, and their linguistic and cultural ties with the surrounding peoples: Sumerians, Egyptians, early Indo-Europeans, Elamites and Hurrians, among others.
It was the descendants of those people who subsequently created such key ancient cultures as Babylonian, Assyrian, Ugaritic, Biblical and Rabbinical Jewish, Phoenician-Punic, early Christian Aramaic, Pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic.
http://www.jum.ru/finproj/semetimdic.htm   (450 words)

  
 Sembase
Post-Biblical Hebrew is being done in conjunction with Aramaic, since some of the best lexical sources are for Judaic literature, whether Hebrew or Aramaic, and attempt exhaustive coverage of both Jewish Literary Aramaic and Post-Biblical Hebrew.
Although it is known that in historical times there were Semitic incursions into the Nile Delta, it is not clear that population movements could account for structural Semitic influences in Egyptian before 3,000 B.C.E. If these verbal forms are native to Egyptian, this is further evidence that they already existed in Proto-Semitic, or even earlier.
Nonlinguists working on Middle East topics, or linguists devoting their time to the study of other language families, may not have been exposed to the Semitic family of languages (or Semitic subfamily of Afro-Asiatic).
http://www.sembase.org   (1891 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Iraq
Several hundred thousand for group of Gurani speakers in both Iraq and Iran (Blau 1989).
Dialects: In the Gurani (Gorani) and Zaza group.
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Iraq   (853 words)

  
 Semitic Linguistics Symposium - Jan '99
Ruth A. Berman and Dorit D. Ravid (Tel Aviv): Insights into Semitics from Research on the Acquisition of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic
concluded with a general discussion, which has tried to raise some questions with regard to Linguistics and Semitic Linguistics, some which had beenraised in the individual lectures, some in the discussions which followed specific presentations.
Volume 20 of IOS has been designed in order to step out of this traditional view, and to present a different look at Semitic Linguistics.
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/symposium1.html   (707 words)

  
 COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO SEMITIC LANGUAGES
This phenomenon has been coupled with a relative surge in resources for Arabic due to concerted efforts by the LDC and ELDA/ELRA.
However, there is an apparent lag in the development of resources and tools for other Semitic languages.
The Semitic family includes many languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 Million).
http://fp.ccls.columbia.edu/~semwksp-acl05   (440 words)

  
 Hebrew & Semitic Studies at UW-Madison
Advanced courses teach the methodology of scholarly investigation.
The Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at UW-Madison teaches Hebrew as a classical and living language and provides the opportunity to study the literature and thought of the cultures based on that language, including biblical Israel, rabbinic and medieval Judaism, and modern Israel.
Courses are also offered in areas of study cognate to the above: Semitic languages, archaeology, and Jewish cultural history.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/hebrew   (148 words)

  
 Afroasiatic languages on Encyclopedia.com
All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right.
Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia.
The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent tongue, proto-Semitic.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Afroasia_TheBerberLanguages.asp   (2154 words)

  
 Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one
Such a view can still be found in some works.
In the Semitic languages we can find some features which are also present in IE but it is hard to find them in other Nostratic languages: Uralic, Altaic, Dravidian and Kartvelian.
The unquestionable genetic relation of the Semitic languages with Egyptian and other languages which are called Hamitic is the main reason for rejecting the thesis of close Semitic-Indo-European genetic relation.
http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/lingwen/iesem1.html   (3197 words)

  
 Semitic languages
A Semite is one who speaks a semitic language.
N.B.: The terms "semitic" and "hamitic" are actually linguistic terms, not ethnic designations.
The consonants would remain the same, while the vowels and vocalization changed according to use.
http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html   (431 words)

  
 Proto-Semitic Language Roots Project
The purpose of this project is to document the existence and use of the Parent/Child Root System of the Proto-Semitic Language.
Proto-Semitic refers to the ancient Semitic language used by Shem, the son of Noah, and his descendents.
From this original Proto-Semitic language is derived all the Semitic languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Phonecian, Akkadian, Moabite, Amorite and others.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/10_home.html   (59 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Semitic Epigraphy
At the beginning of the eighteenth century European scholars sought in vain to decipher two Palmyran inscriptions which had been discovered at Rome.
We shall begin with the branches which belong to the group of North Semitic languages.
The stela of King Mesa relates how this prince, a tributary of Israel, made himself independent during the reign of Ahab (875-853).
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13709a.htm   (2496 words)

  
 Semitic languages
Semitic writings are divided into 3 groups: The cuneiform signs of Assyria and Babylonia, and secondly the alphabet of the North Semitic.
Akkadian which was spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, and is the oldest Semitic language.
Language group that includes the languages Arabic, Hebrew in the Middle East region.
http://lexicorient.com/e.o/semit_l.htm   (175 words)

  
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The Semitic languages, on the other hand, have a morphology that has been called nonlinear (or nonconcatenative).
This understandably increases the number of interpretations an utterance could have.
The Indo-European languages have a morphology that is markedly different from the Semitic languages.
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~oslkonto/hmmvoc.doc   (2592 words)

  
 Semitic Transliterator in Unicode
This allows your entire project to be typed in the same typestyle.
Both Unicode and non-Unicode versions of Semitic Transliterator may be installed on your system (since they have different file and font names) and may even be used in the same files.
The Semitic Transliterator Converter is available to convert TranslitLS (ASCII-encoded) Word files to the TranslitLSU fonts.
http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm   (2253 words)

  
 Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
Semitic languages are used by a significantly large population of native speakers and belong to a family that includes a large number of Arabic dialects (including classical Arabic), Maltese,Hebrew and other languages.
Although there exists a body of CL research specifically targeted to individual Semitic languages, and there have been various workshops devoted to computing with Semitic Languages, much of the work to date remains the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments.
A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach.
http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL   (356 words)

  
 Semitic - OneLook Dictionary Search
Phrases that include Semitic: anti semitic, hamito semitic, semitic languages, hamito semitic languages, semitic speaking, more...
adjective: of or relating to the group of Semitic languages (
Semitic : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
http://www.onelook.com/?w=Semitic&ls=a   (223 words)

  
 Semitic Museum - Cyprus Home Page
When he left Cyprus, he took with him thousands of objects, which formed part of the original collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
This exhibit at the Semitic Museum features selected pieces from the collection, along with other Cypriot artifacts from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and the State University of New York in Albany.
In 1995, the Semitic Museum acquired, in a three-way exchange with the Stanford University Museums and the Harvard University Art Museums, a portion of the famous Cesnola collection which Stanford had purchased from the Met.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/hsm/CyprusHomePage.htm   (370 words)

  
 Oxford Journals Humanities Journal of Semitic Studies
Semitic Studies has always been understood by the editors to include the modern as well as the ancient Near (Middle) East, with special emphasis on research into the languages and literatures of the area.
The Journal of Semitic Studies was established in 1955 and since then has built up a reputation as one of the leading international academic journals in its field.
The editors continue to maintain the policy of ensuring that each volume contains items of interest to Orientalists and Biblical Scholars.
http://jss.oxfordjournals.org   (117 words)

  
 Weiner (NY09) - Report - Report Prepared By: Representative Anthony D. - Anti-Semitism on the Rise
11/21: Anti- Semitic graffiti written on front door of the Clearview Jewish Center, 16-50 Utopia Parkway, Brooklyn.
http://www.house.gov/weiner/report21.htm   (876 words)

  
 Shlomo Izre'el
Since the academic year 1975/6 has been teaching at Tel Aviv University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Department of Semitic Linguistics, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew Culture Studies.
Semitic Language Samples: Eastern and Northwest Semitic Languages
1995-2005: Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages.
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/izreel.html   (316 words)

  
 Major Anti-Semitic Motifs in Arab Cartoons - Joël Kotek
Joël Kotek was born in Gent in 1958.
Arieh Stav, Peace: The Arabian Caricature; A study of Anti- Semitic Imagery (Jerusalem: Gefen, 1999).
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-21.htm   (3684 words)

  
 Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
semitic was found in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English at the entries listed below.
We publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=A&searchword=semitic   (34 words)

  
 Wordsmyth
of or pertaining to the Semites or their languages.
http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=Semitic&matchtype=exact   (91 words)

  
 nw semitic links
A collection of the most important West Semitic inscriptions, with photographs, material facts, translation, basic literature and some questions for further study, by K.C.Hanson, Biblical Studies Editor at Fortress Press.
Jaghbub is a transkription font which was originally developped for Arabic on the Mac, but is very useful for other Semitic languages, too.
Contains an educational site with "Images in low resolution format with accompanying commentary for use by educators and students" and a scholarly site providing a "Catalogue of West Semitic Research Project images which can be obtained in high resolution format"
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/lehmann/link.html   (2769 words)

  
 AHRC - Ancient Semitic Inscriptions
The copyrights to many of the pictures in the "Ancient Semitic Inscriptions" section belong to others, please notify us before using.
See Chart for the Early, Middle, Late and Modern Semitic Scripts.
Click the images for larger image and information on the script.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/6_inscriptions.html   (43 words)

  
 Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
Of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology."
Type or paste a URL to reproduce the page with dictionary-enabling.
http://www.ultralingua.net/?service=ee&text=Semitic   (121 words)

  
 Semitic Languages
If you have comments, or have something you would like to see added to this site, please send me a message.
Also, see site Semitic Transliterator, and the company's homepage
The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project --A major site for work on Ugaritic texts
http://www.accd.edu/pac/philosop/phil1301/semiticl.htm   (118 words)

  
 1992-93 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL REPORT
He has also written chapters in collective volumes: "Phonology of Ethiopic" (A. Kaye, ed., Introduction to the Phonology of Oriental Languages, Harrassowitz), "Ge'ez" (R. Hetzron, ed., The Semitic Languages, Routledge).
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/92-93/92-93_Ind_Gragg.html   (246 words)

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