Semitic
Example Sentences
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“Of course it could be frustrating,” said her daughter Brigitte, an elegant, soft-spoken scholar of Semitic languages who has managed Caland’s estate since her death in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Conservator Margalida Munar, papyrologist Leah Mascia, and Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, professor in the Department of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages, classical philologist, and director of the Oxyrhynchus project, examined the fragile document.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
“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
Just like Saint Augustine 800 years earlier, Maimonides tried to reshape the Semitic Bible to fit into Greek doctrine: doctrine that had an unreasonable fear of the void.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
