Maltese is a Semitic language, with heavy borrowing from Italian and French in vocabulary. |
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For the ancient Semitic world, of course, this watery chaos was the home of the great sea monster, the forces of death and destruction. |
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Some are ethnically Arab, which means that they are Semitic, and speak Arabic. |
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There are few locations in Egypt where evidence of Ancient Egyptian, Semitic and Nabataean culture overlap. |
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One is the Semitic root-and-pattern structure, which combines root radicals with a mainly vocalic pattern to produce a word. |
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The Canaanites, the first known settlers in the country, spoke a Semitic language. |
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In this period, Hebrew was spoken, and Hebrew is a Semitic language, just like Arabic. |
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This is true of no other letter of the alphabet except pi, and here the name is a natural development of the Semitic name pe. |
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The final theory has been called the theory of cognateness, and purports that both codes had been influenced from a common Semitic background. |
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Augustine never studied Hebrew, though he understood words of Punic spoken by the peasants and well knew that it was a cognate Semitic language. |
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Arabic is a Semitic language related to Aramaic, Hebrew, various Ethiopic languages, and others. |
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It is not of Semitic origin nor an Arab or Persian dialect, but a distinct language from the Indo-European family. |
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From about 2500 BC onwards, the cuneiform script was also used to write Akkadian and Eblaite, which are Semitic languages. |
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Arabic, the language of the majority and the official language of the country, is a Semitic tongue related to Hebrew, Aramaic, and Amharic. |
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Tigrinya, the language spoken by the Tigray, is from the Semitic family of languages, and is related to Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. |
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Its history began around 2000 B.C., when Semitic Amorites settled around the Jordan River in the area called Canaan. |
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In Southwest Asia, Persian, Semitic, and Turkic languages identify various ethnic groups. |
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The Kurdish minority of northern Iraq speaks an Indo-European language very different from the Semitic language of Arabic. |
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In a narrow strip on the western border of Ethiopia live the only people in the country who speak neither Semitic nor Cushitic languages. |
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The rest of the population speaks languages drawn from Indo-European, Ural-Altaic, or Semitic language families. |
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Aramaic belongs to the Semitic language group historically centred in the Middle East. |
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Arabic, like other Semitic languages, including Hebrew, is based on triliteral roots. |
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The Sumerian signs were used to write the Old Akkadian language which was Semitic. |
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The Semitic mind speaks in terms of beings, beings that embody good and evil. |
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And of course Syriac has, like all Semitic languages, word breaks. |
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We had only been making small talk for a few minutes when he aired his views on the relative attractiveness of Semitic females. |
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And of course Syriac, like all Semitic languages, has word breaks. |
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On this account, the word based theories posit that lexical relations in Semitic languages are linked to derivations involving lexemes and morphemes. |
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In response, Abduh indicated that the present culture of Europe did not originate from the Aryans and the Greeks, but from contact with the Semitic nations. |
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Karthli is distinct from Indo-European, Turkic, and Semitic languages. |
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Thus it is much closer to other Northwest Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Phoenician, than to languages outside that group, such as Arabic or Babylonian. |
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The poems are written in Akkadian and Sumerian, the latter a mainly academic, scribal language, the former a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic. |
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Arabic, on the other hand, belongs to the Semitic language family. |
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Like the vestry that surrounded ancient anointed Semitic kings, the dove was symbolic both of God's approval and the installation of power to his servant for service. |
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It is a Semitic language somewhat related to Arabic and Hebrew. |
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Arabic is a branch of the Semitic languages, which in turn belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family together with Berber, Ancient Egyptian, Chadic, and Cushitic. |
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Diligently, he traces each letter from the ancient Semitic and Phoenician alphabets through Old English and Norman French, exploring shapes and pronunciation. |
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In some Semitic languages the cognate sound is a voiceless uvular stop. |
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There are not many comparative studies of topicalization and related phenomena in the Semitic languages. |
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Maltese has a Semitic base with substantial borrowing from Sicilian, Italian, a little French, and more recently and increasingly, English. |
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He regarded it as a fourth subrace of the Caucasian race, along with the Aryan, Semitic, and Hamitic subraces. |
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Maltese is the only Semitic language that is official within the EU, while Basque is the only European language isolate. |
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From the 29th century BC, Akkadian Semitic names began to appear on king lists and administrative documents of various city states. |
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Most people in the Horn speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. |
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Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. |
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As early as 2000 BC, other Semitic speakers were living in Ethiopia and Eritrea where Ge'ez developed. |
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Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia all used the written East Semitic Akkadian language for official use and as a spoken language. |
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Mehri is the largest South Semitic language spoken in the nation, with more than 70,000 speakers. |
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Soqotri is another South Semitic language, with speakers on the island of Socotra isolated from the pressures of Arabic on the Yemeni mainland. |
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This Semitic origin may be a relic of the Phoenician traders who sailed to Britain from the Mediterranean as part of the ancient tin trade. |
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A second period of disunity heralded the arrival of the first foreign ruling dynasty in Egypt, that of the Semitic Hyksos. |
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In the Semitic languages, paragogic letters are added to the ordinary forms of words to express additional emphasis or a change in the meaning. |
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Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture while much of Aphrodite's iconography may spring from Semitic goddesses. |
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This is one of the methods of procedure. The other is through man to God. The second is peculiarly Aryan, and the first is peculiarly Semitic. |
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Since around 1050 BC, this script was used for the writing of Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language. |
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The Phoenician language is classified in the Canaanite subgroup of Northwest Semitic. |
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The Arabian peninsula has long been accepted as the original Urheimat of the Semitic languages by a majority of scholars. |
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The Semitic genitive should not be confused with the pronominal possessive suffixes that exist in all the Semitic languages. |
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Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called afformatives, as they can alter the form of the words. |
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Particularly in Semitic languages, a suffix is called an afformative, as it can alter the form of the words. |
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Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Semitic, and auxiliary languages generally have a definite article, sometimes used as a postposition. |
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Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. |
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Thus we trace ever and again the similarities which are to be found among the Semitic religions. |
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It is perhaps, therefore, a late 'wander-word' of the southeast of the IE world, Semitic and Sumerian. |
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Among these, Semitic speakers often collectively refer to themselves as the Habesha people. |
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This principle, stated by Hetzron 1976 within the context of Semitic, goes back at least to the 1880s and the Neogrammarian Carl Osthoff. |
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Furthermore, in Semitic the loss of case endings could be a result of phonological changes, rather than a structural change as Gzella suggests. |
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In contrast to these Semitic religions some religions of Indian origin like Buddhism and Jainism, are pacifist to the extent of banning the killing of animals even for food. |
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It was hardly foreordained that a poor orphan from darkest Brittany... working in the recondite realms of Semitic philology, should play such a role in his time. |
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Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. |
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Gordon believed that Phoenicians and other Semitic groups had crossed the Atlantic in antiquity, ultimately arriving in both North and South America. |
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Nevertheless, the Gospel of Matthew known today was composed in Greek and is neither directly dependent upon nor a translation of a text in a Semitic language. |
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Employed as an abugida for several of the country's languages, it first came into usage in the 6th and 5th centuries BC as an abjad to transcribe the Semitic Ge'ez language. |
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However, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia, is thought to have developed independently from Sabaean, one of the South Semitic languages. |
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This lexeme has the same meaning in Akkadian and in Arabic, and specifically in the Akkadian of Mari, which is possibly a loanword from Northwest Semitic. |
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The Semitic religions are nationally honored in much of Africa. |
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