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| | Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | With the emergence of Islam, the ascent 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. | | | Hebrew, long extinct, was revived at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism, and has become the main language of Israel, while remaining the liturgical language of Jews worldwide. | | | Several small ethnic groups, especially the Assyrians, continue to speak Aramaic 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
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| | Semitic branch |
| | Phoenician is an ancient Semitic language that was spoken in Palestine and on the coast of Syria. | | | It is the official language of Israel and the liturgical language of Jews around the world. | | | Syriac, an older descendant of Aramaic, is used as a liturgical language by Iraqi Christians. |
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http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/august/SemiticLanguages.html
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| | SEMITIC LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on SEMITIC LANGUAGES |
| | The language spoken some time afterwards by the Palestinian Jews, especially in Galilee, is exhibited in a series of rabbinical works, the so-called J erusaleln Targums (of which, however, those on the Hagiographa are in some cases of later date), a few Midrashic works, and the Jerusalem Talmud. | | | 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. | | | In the East even small communities, especially a ~ ~ if they form a religious body, often cling persistently to their mother-tongue, though they may be surrounded by a population of alien speech; and such was probably the case with the Jews in Babylonia. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMITIC_LANGUAGES.htm
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| | 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. | | | The department has long been associated with the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, the principal series of Christian patristic writings in the languages of the numerous churches in the Near Eastern homelands of Christianity; the series is published jointly by the Catholic Universities of Louvain and America. | | | An Internet Researcher Guide to Semitic and Christian Oriental Resources is maintained by CUA librarians and Semitics department faculty and students. |
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http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/semitics
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | These are the Syriac language (or to use a better term, Syriac dialect because Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and not a language on its own) of the Christians, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaean, the language of the Mandaean Gnostic sect. | | | The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac). | | | With the spread of Arabic, its old dialectal differences multiplied, and the spoken language soon divided into local dialects, which could be either sociolectal (townspeople, country folk, Bedouins) or religious (Muslims, Jews, Christians) in character. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | Hamito-Semitic languages |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Since four of the Hamito-Semitic tongues, Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac, are also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism, and two sects of the Christian faith, the language family reaches many millions in addition to its native speakers. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0822546.html
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| | Semitic languages: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Argobba language[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] | | | Arabic language[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] | | | The ammonite language is the extinct hebrew canaanite language of the ammonite people mentioned in the bible, who used to live in modern-day jordan, and... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic_languages.htm
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| | 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). | | | 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). | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic
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| | 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. | | | Often, work on individual Semitic languages, unfortunately, still tends to be done with limited awareness of ongoing research in other Semitic languages. |
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http://fp.ccls.columbia.edu/~semwksp-acl05
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| | SEM 230 - Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature |
| | Gelb, I. “The Early History of the West Semitic Peoples,” JCS 15:27-47. | | | Ginsberg, H. “The Northwest Semitic Languages,” The World History of the Jewish People, volume 1/2: Patriarches. | | | Moran, William L. “The Hebrew Language in its Northwest Semitic Background,” in The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of W. Albright, ed. |
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http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind_files/SEM230_NW_Sem.htm
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| | Semitic languages - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research |
| | Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years. | | | SEMITIC LANGUAGES [Semitic languages] subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages. | | | Semitic languages - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1E1:X-Semiticl/Semitic+languages.html?refid=ip_hf
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| | Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | 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. | | | Since four of the Afroasiatic tongues, Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac, are also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism, and two sects of the Christian faith, the language family reaches many millions in addition to its native speakers. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Afroasia.html
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| | Semitic languages |
| | Hebrew which is the language of Israel today, Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Phoenician, where the two latter no longer exists. | | | Language group that includes the languages Arabic, Hebrew in the Middle East region. | | | Semitic writings are divided into 3 groups: The cuneiform signs of Assyria and Babylonia, and secondly the alphabet of the North Semitic. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/semit_l.htm
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| | Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 |
| | B.C. In spite of the fact that the Semitic languages have been known and studied by scholars for many hundreds of years, the comparative reconstruction of Proto-Semitic is in many ways still in its infancy. | | | There were three cases, a nominative (for subjects of sentences and for predicates of verbless sentences), genitive (for possession and after all prepositions), and accusative (for the direct object of the verb and for sundry adverbial forms). | | | This Appendix of Semitic Roots, while by no means the first comparative Semitic glossary, is the first such work to attempt systematically to give reconstructed forms and meanings for such a wide variety of roots and words. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/61/10.html
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| | Indo-European and Semitic languages – part one |
| | 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. | | | Such a view can still be found in some works. | | | 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. |
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http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/lingwen/iesem1.html
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| | Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, The Jewish Theological Seminary |
| | Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, The Jewish Theological Seminary | | | The history, languages and cultures of ancient Israel and the ancient Near East are studied through a wide range of courses centered on the Biblical Period (second and first millenium BCE). | | | The Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages trains students in the disciplines that are required to interpret the Bible. |
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http://www.jtsa.edu/academics/bib
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| | Semitic languages |
| | Afroasiatic languages: The Semitic Languages - The Semitic Languages The Semitic languages are believed to have evolved from a hypothetical parent... | | | Afroasiatic languages: The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems - The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems The writing used for Semitic... | | | Semitic languages, subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0918580.html
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| | Workshop Proposal: |
| | Accurate translation of Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic languages requires treatment of unique linguistic characteristics, some of which are common to all Semitic languages, others specific to each of these individual languages and their dialects. | | | Over the past decade there has been some progress on the computational processing of Semitic languages. | | | Many of the presenters have also been kind enough to provide us with the presentation slides. |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~alavie/semitic-MT-wshp.html
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| | 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. | | | This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING-ACL98 in Montreal. |
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http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL
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| | Ethiopian Alphabet |
| | The Ethiopian languages of this family are derived from Ge'ez, the language of the ancient Axumite Kingdom, which was also the language of the country's literature prior to the mid-nineteenth century, as well as part of most present-day church services. | | | Two other Semitic languages are spoken to the south and east of Addis Ababa: Guraginya, used by the Gurage in a cluster of areas to the south of the capital, and Adarinya, a tongue current only within the old walled city of Harar and used by the Adare, also known as Harari people. | | | Moreover, Amharic is also the official language of the modern state, the language of administration, and the language of much modern Ethiopian literature. |
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http://www.tourismethiopia.org/pages/alphabet.asp
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| | 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. |
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http://www.linguistsoftware.com/stu.htm
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| | Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics |
| | The Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics series has been a prominent forum for linguistic publications concerning the Semitic languages ever since its foundation 1967. | | | 30 Jewish Life in Arabic Language and Jerusalem Arabic in Communal Perspective | | | A Comparative Survey of Non-Masoretic Hebrew Dialects and Traditions.Part 1. |
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http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?ID=7528
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| | JSTOR: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| | The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures | | | JSTOR: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures | | | Journal Information for The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/10620516.html
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| | Old Testament, Trinity International University (v. 1.04) |
| | Attention is given to problems of Old Testament history and criticism. | | | The Old Testament and Semitic Language Department acquaints students with the content and teaching of the Old Testament Scriptures and introduces them to the tools they need for a lifetime of effective independent study of these Scriptures. | | | Old Testament and Semitic Languages Department Home Page |
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http://www.tiu.edu/tedsotnsl
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| | Semitic languages - WordReference Forums |
| | I was trying to show where some of the translations include both the word "prince" and "king." I think some languages used the term "little king" to signify "prince." Some of the words ended in "zede" (not "zada"). | | | But I think the answer I needed for "Shahzada" was the translation of "son of a king," which is a funny way to say "prince" when a language probably has a word directly for "prince." (that is the title translation in several languages, like Urdu, for the book "The Little Prince") | | | The problem it, we dunno in what language is your "Scheherazade" is. Arabic? |
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=9087
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| | Semitic Languages |
| | Introduction to the teachings of Jesus (discusses his language and how he used stories, hyperbole, overstatement, etc.) | | | Also, see site Semitic Transliterator, and the company's homepage | | | If you have comments, or have something you would like to see added to this site, please send me a message. |
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http://www.accd.edu/pac/philosop/phil1301/semiticl.htm
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| | Hamito-Semitic languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Magazines and Newspapers for: Hamito-Semitic languages or search in Pictures and Maps for Hamito-Semitic languages |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/X/X-H1amitoS1e.asp
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