網頁When the big empires, such as Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian, used Aramaic as their official language, which marked the next period of Aramaic, and that is the Official, Imperial, or Chaldean...

網頁The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which originated in the Middle East. Semitic languages are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia , North Africa and the Horn of Africa , as well as in large communities of people from different countries in North America and Europe .

網頁North-Semitic Languages. (1) Babylonian-Assyrian (including inscriptions from c. 4000 B.C. to c. 250 B.C.). (2) Canaanitish Dialects: Canaanitish glosses in the El-Amarna tablets; Hebrew (including Biblical Hebrew and post-Biblical Hebrew); Moabitish (Moabite Stone); Phenician (including Punic).

網頁Gender systems that are familiar from Indo-European and Semitic languages based on sex of an individual are but one of a number of such classifications: masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine, and neuter; common and neuter; animate and inanimate. These are some of the more familiar schemes.

網頁2011/12/23 · About this book The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification.

網頁Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic or Maltese belong to the Afro-Asian family, ... Formally, constituency structures are linearly-ordered trees in which inter-nal nodes are labeled with phrase types from a finite set (including Noun Phrase The ...

網頁Proto-West Semitic is characterized by a new means of expressing the perfective aspect, the suffix-conjuga- tion, as in Hebrew nāṣartā ‘you (have) guarded’, which in Proto-Semitic (probably also in Proto-Afroasiatic) and in Akkadian was simply a conjugated adjective, as in Akka- dian naṣrāta ‘you are/were guarded’.

網頁The term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arabs, and Ethiopian Semites.

網頁For Nordic languages such as Swedish, Finnish, Danish, and Norwegian, the language tree is essentially the same, just on a different branch. If you’re from Finland, for example, odds are high that you can understand at least some words spoken in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Albanian, Turkish, and Korean? Maybe not so much.

網頁Semitic languages are a well established branch within the Afro-Asiatic language family. Before Semitic languages such as Punic and then Arabic expanded it was primarily spoken in Western Asia and atleast from around 4000 years ago, in Northern Ethiopia. The Ethiopian sub branch is seen as an intrusive expansion from what is today Yemen.