Semitic

Example Sentences

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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

It corresponds to the Hebrew letter Aleph, which corresponds to the Semitic word for ox.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022

From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond