Semitic
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Semitic men and women walked the desert with animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025
“These minor errors indicate that the priest was not a native Greek speaker but likely someone from the region who was raised speaking a Semitic language,” he said in the statement.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
And then shortly after that, we also found some passages written in an ancient Semitic language called Akkadian that is related to Hebrew and Arabic today.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2023
People in the region came to speak Amorite, which belonged to the family of Semitic languages.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Even the Semitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
