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Semitic (less commonly), Shemitic 1. a branch or subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, and such ancient languages as Akkadian and Phoenician 2. denoting, belonging to, or characteristic of any of the peoples speaking a Semitic language, esp the Jews or the Arabs 3. another word for Jewish How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Sumerians, who first invented writing, remain a mystery to scholars, since they were ethnically and linguistically distinct from the Semitic peoples, who include the Arabs and the Babylonians, who subsequently populated Iraq. The notion that Greek gods, language, technology and political life derived from African and Semitic peoples, either through the borrowing and adaptation of ideas or through military conquest, held sway among historians until the 1820s, Bernal argues. |
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