Semitic
adjective
uk/səˈmɪt.ɪk/us/səˈmɪt̬.ɪk/Semiticlanguagesare agroupoflanguagesthatincludeHebrew,Arabic, andAramaic:
Aramaicis one of theoldestlanguagesin the Semiticgroup.
Thismixingof a Semitic and an Altaiclanguagehasgreatlyincreasedtheproblemfor theresearcher.
belongingorrelatingto a Semiticlanguageor Semiticlanguages:
The word Leviathan, initsoriginalSemiticform, referred to amassive,terrifyingseamonster.
TheearliestknownalphabetwasNorthSemitic,developedin the 2ndcenturyBC in Palestine and Syria.
Semiticpeoplebelongto one of thegroupsthatspeakSemiticlanguages:
What did the Semiticinhabitantscalltheircity?
Not allJewishpeopleare Semitic - theyincludeAnglos and Slavs as well as other ethnicities.
old use
Jewish:
犹太人的In thisperiodJewswere littletroubledby beinglabelledas Semitic.
See also
antisemitic
Language names
- Albanian
- American English
- Amharic
- Angrezi
- Aramaic
- Ebonics
- Filipino
- Finno-Ugric
- Flemish
- Georgian
- Greenlandic
- Gujarati
- Manx
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Monégasque
- Nauruan
- Nepalese
- Romany
- Yiddish