The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen …

Semites, Semitic peoples or Semitic cultures is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen School of History, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (Hebrew: שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in …

Semitic people, an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group who speak or spoke the Semitic languages; Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples; See also. Semitism (disambiguation) Shem This page was last edited on 10 April 2021, at 08:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were people who lived throughout the ancient Near East, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity.. Their languages are usually divided into three branches: East, Central and South Semitic languages.The Proto-Semitic language …

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