The Semitic languages are a group of related languages spoken across North and East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and one of the major language groups that descended from the larger family of Afroasiatic languages.
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The Ancient Languages of Syria Palestine and Arabia
In the following pages, the reader will discover what is, in effect, a linguistic description of all known ancient languages. Never before in the history of language study has such a collection appeared within the covers of a single work. This volume brings to student and to scholar convenient, systematic presentations of grammars which, in the best of cases, were heretofore accessible only by consulting multiple sources, and which in all too many instances could only be retrieved from scattered, out-of-the-way, disparate treatments. For some languages, the only existing comprehensive grammatical description is to be found herein.
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Semitic Languages Outline of a Comparative Grammar. By Edward Lipinsky
The "Semitic" languages were so named in 1781 by A.L. Schlcezer in J.G. Eichhorn's Repertorium fuer biblische und morgenlaendische Literatur (vol. VIII, p. 161) because they were spoken by peoples included in Gen. 10,21-31 among the sons of Sem. They are spoken nowadays by more than two hundred million people and they constitute the only language family the history of which can be followed for four thousand five hundred years. However, they do not stand isolated among the languages of the world.