Semitic most commonly refers to the
Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta.
Semitic may also refer to:
Religions
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Abrahamic religions
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Semitic religions (disambiguation)
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Ancient Semitic religion
Other linguistic terms
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Proto-Semitic language
Proto-Semitic is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Semitic languages. There is no consensus regarding the location of the Proto-Semitic ''Urheimat''; scholars hypothesize that it may have originated in the Levant (m ...
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Semitic root
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Semitic studies
People
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Semitic people, an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group who speak or spoke the Semitic languages
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Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
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 antiquit ...
See also
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Semitism (disambiguation)
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