Encyclopedia entry: Semitic languages

Article: The Semitic Languages. Routledge Language Family ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages" (Alice Faber ... survey of "Scripts of Semitic Languages" (Peter T. Daniels ... ancient and modem Semitic languages in chapters written ... Sayhadic (Epigraphic South Arabian) (Leonid E. Kogan ...

Article: Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... bibliography of studies of Semitic languages in general and the ... Lipinski places the Semitic languages in the broad class ... Lipinski subdivides the Semitic languages into four groups ... and South Semitic (South Arabian and Ethiopic ...

Article: Semitic Languages
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa;      455 words ...SEMITIC LANGUAGES A group of languages, previously ... character-defining feature of Semitic languages is the system of consonant roots ... Hetzron, Robert, ed. The Semitic Languages. New York: Routledge, 1998 ...

Article: Hamito-Semitic languages
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      275 words ...Hamito-Semitic languages see Afroasiatic languages .

Article: RABBI I. J. KAZIS, AT 90; SEMITIC LANGUAGES SCHOLAR
The Boston Globe;  May 6, 2001 ;     436 words ... ... from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts degree. He also received master's and doctoral degrees in history and Semitic languages from Harvard. In 1946, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities by Suffolk University. He earned a doctorate ...

Article: High-load nominal attributes in some Semitic ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... phrase, it precedes the noun. This is the solution of Ge??ez. The following discusses the solutions used by other Semitic languages. The attributes under consideration are adjectives only. Akkadian In Akkadian as well as in Ge??ez, an adjective ...

Article: South Arabian League
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa;      306 words ...SOUTH ARABIAN LEAGUE Group promoting independence of Britain's protectorates in southern Arabia. The South Arabian League was the oldest (founded 1950) of the major nationalist groups created to change the status of Britain's possessions ...