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• Semitic_languages abstract "The Semitic languages are a language family originating in the Near East whose living representatives are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. They constitute a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are (numbers given are for native speakers only) Arabic (300 million), Amharic (21.8 million), Hebrew (7 million), Tigrinya (6.7 million), and Aramaic (550,000).Semitic languages are attested in written form from a very early date, with Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from around the middle of the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant respectively. However, most scripts used to write Semitic languages are abjads — a type of alphabetic script that omits some or all of the vowels, which is feasible for these languages because the consonants in the Semitic languages are the primary carriers of meaning. Among them are the Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and South Arabian alphabets. The Ge'ez alphabet, used for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is technically an abugida — a modified abjad in which vowels are notated using diacritic marks added to the consonants. Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script and the only official Semitic language of the European Union.The Semitic languages are notable for their nonconcatenative morphology. That is, word roots are not themselves syllables or words, but instead are isolated sets of consonants (usually three, making a so-called triliteral root). Words are composed out of roots not so much by adding prefixes or suffixes, but rather by filling in the vowels between the root consonants (although prefixes and suffixes are often added as well). For example, in Arabic, the root meaning "write" has the form k-t-b. From this root, words are formed by filling in the vowels, e.g. kitāb "book", kutub "books", kātib "writer", kuttāb "writers", kataba "he wrote", yaktubu "he writes", etc.".
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• Semitic_languages wikiPageExternalLink Appendix:Afro-Asiatic_Swadesh_lists.
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• Semitic_languages altname "Syro-Arabian".
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• Semitic_languages mapcaption "Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages.".
• Semitic_languages name "Semitic".
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• Semitic_languages region Horn_of_Africa.
• Semitic_languages region Malta.
• Semitic_languages region North_Africa.
• Semitic_languages region Western_Asia.
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• Semitic_languages comment "The Semitic languages are a language family originating in the Near East whose living representatives are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. They constitute a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.".
• Semitic_languages label "Języki semickie".
• Semitic_languages label "Langues sémitiques".
• Semitic_languages label "Lenguas semíticas".
• Semitic_languages label "Lingue semitiche".
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• Semitic_languages label "Semitische Sprachen".
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• Semitic_languages label "Семитские языки".
• Semitic_languages label "لغات سامية".
• Semitic_languages label "セム語派".
• Semitic_languages label "闪米特语族".
• Semitic_languages sameAs Semitské_jazyky.
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