By Robert Hetzron
The Semitic Languages provides a special, entire survey of person languages or language clusters from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.
The Semitic relations occupies a place of serious historic and linguistic importance: the spoken and written languages of the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs unfold all through Asia and northerly and imperative Africa the previous Semitic civilizations in flip contributed considerably to ecu tradition and smooth Hebrew, sleek literary Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya became their countries legitimate languages.
The publication is split into 3 elements and every bankruptcy provides a self-contained article, written by way of a famous professional within the field.
- I. common concerns: offering an advent to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing platforms of this language family.
- II. outdated Semitic Languages
- III. sleek Semitic Languages
Parts II and III include dependent chapters, which permit the reader to entry and evaluate details simply. those person descriptions of every language or cluster contain phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects.
Suggestions are made for the main valuable assets of additional studying and the paintings is comprehensively listed.
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6 Letter names Hebrew Greek Syriac Arabic Ethiopic >IDep bet g(mel dale! he waw zayin l)e! tet y5g kfip lameg mem nun s&me! lg he waw zay(n) l)e! tel yo/ug kap lamag mim nun semka!
Li -,::),? li q- q:::l u :;;;! :;~ :;:;~ e ii o t Each symbol is shown alone and following b-. litep patai). litep sagO! sawli qibbul? 5lem -;-iI :::-~, 'I-~:l =--":J qlim~ patai). sagO! li -.? Q,? b~li West Syriac :> -:-? 4 Vocalization systems of the abjadst . : . : . y (: -an) , -y (--in) , Arabic 32 SCRIPTS OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES Northwest Semitic Order The order with the earliest attestation is found at Ugarit. Several abecedaries have been recovered, and the order prevailing in them is: a b g b d h w Z Qty k s I man ~ s < p ~ q r e 'Y t ius The three letters peculiar to Ugaritic are found at the end of the basic sequence (presumably added on to an earlier version, as has been the practice throughout history: compare upsilon through omega, Greek additions to the Semitic base, and U through Z, Roman additions to the Greek base).
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