About The Word Semitic
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Semitic
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What's The Definition Of Semitic?
[n] a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
[adj] of or relating to or characteristic of Semites; "Semite peoples" [adj] of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; "Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology" Synonyms | Synonyms for Semitic: Semite Related Terms | Find terms related to Semitic: See Also | Afrasian | Afrasian language | Afroasiatic | Afroasiatic language | Akkadian | Amharic | Arabic | Arabic language | Aramaic | Canaanitic | Canaanitic language | Ethiopian language | Hamito-Semitic Semitic In Webster's Dictionary \Sem*it"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to
that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs,
Jews, and related races. [Written also {Shemitic}.]
{Semitic language}, a name used to designate a group of
Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead,
namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian,
Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.
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