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Obsolete racial category
Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the
Semitic_people
Residents of the ancient Near East until the end of antiquity
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and later also
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Ancient_Semitic-speaking_peoples
Branch of the Afroasiatic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South
Semitic_languages
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Semitic people, Semitic peoples or Semites may refer to the racial and ethnic concept of Semitic race, in common use between late 18th to early 20th century
Semitic people (disambiguation)
Semitic_people_(disambiguation)
Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term
Ancient_Semitic_religion
Topics referred to by the same term
Africa, and Malta. Semitic may also refer to: Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples Semitic people, a term used in the grouping of Semitic languages in linguistics
Semitic
Study of the Semitic peoples
studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic. Asian studies African studies Middle Eastern studies Semitic people Gotthelf
Semitic_studies
People from Ancient Carthage
dictionary. The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia
Punic_people
Division of the Semitic languages of the Levant
Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze
Northwest_Semitic_languages
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and Mandaeism. Ancient Semitic religion, polytheistic pre-Abrahamic religions practiced by Ancient Semitic peoples Semitic neopaganism, religions based
Semitic_religions
Group of South Semitic languages of Arabia and Socotra
The Modern South Arabian languages, also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting
Modern_South_Arabian
Telugu people Toda people Tulu people Assamese people Awadhi people Baiga people Banjara people Bhojpuri people Bhoksa people Bengali people Bhil people Brokpa
Ethnic_groups_in_South_Asia
Large language family of Africa and West Asia
Afroasiatic languages (also known as the Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic languages) are a language family (or phylum) of about
Afroasiatic_languages
Ancient Semitic people in the Near East
romanized: ārāmāyē, Syriac pronunciation: [ʔɑːrɑːˈmɑːje]), were a tribal Semitic people in the ancient Near East, first documented in historical sources from
Arameans
Topics referred to by the same term
Chaldean people may refer to: Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean
Chaldean_people
Topics referred to by the same term
influence of a Semitic language is present Judaism Philosemitism Semitic people Antisemitism Semitic (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles
Semitism
Ethnic group in Southern Africa
scholarly attention about the Lemba's common partial descent from Semitic peoples of West Asia. Genetic Y-DNA analyses have established a paternal West
Lemba_people
Ethnic group native to Mesopotamia
religious, regional, and historic traditions. Assyrians are an indigenous Semitic people of West Asia, with a continuous cultural and linguistic presence spanning
Assyrians
Hypothetical reconstructed proto-language
question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Semitic languages. There is no consensus among scholars
Proto-Semitic_language
Writing system where each symbol stands for a consonant
consonantal Semitic scripts such as Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Semitic proto-alphabets classified within the family of scripts used to write West Semitic languages
Abjad
Country in North Africa
Tunisia was inhabited by the indigenous Berbers. The Phoenicians, a Semitic people, began to arrive in the 12th century BC, settling on the coast and establishing
Tunisia
Outdated grouping of human beings
the three classical continents: the Semitic peoples of Asia, the Hamitic peoples of Africa, and the Japhetic peoples of Europe. The term has been used in
Japhetites
Writing system used c. 1050 to 146 BC
alphabet proper uses 22 consonant letters—as an abjad used to write a Semitic language, it leaves vowel sounds implicit—though late varieties sometimes
Phoenician_alphabet
Political party in Germany
who had been involved in the original party, under the name Antisemitic People's Party. It was based in Erfurt in Saxony. The Deutscher Antisemitenbund
German_Reform_Party
Ethnic group native to Malta
The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic with a substantial
Maltese_people
Ancient Semitic maritime civilization
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in
Phoenicia
Royal dynasty in Mesopotamia
south Mesopotamian polities. Like other Sumerians, the people of Ur were a non-Semitic people who may have come from the east circa 3300 BCE, and spoke
First_Dynasty_of_Ur
Semitic word for 'king'
Mallick, Melekh) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as M-L-K in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze
Malik
was scheduled to undergo it. Circumcision was also adopted by some Semitic peoples living in or around Egypt. Herodotus reported that circumcision is
History_of_circumcision
history of the Middle East Iranian diaspora Iranian peoples Jewish diaspora Jews Semitic people Turkic peoples "The Middle East", britannica.com, 21 September
Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Ethnic_groups_in_the_Middle_East
have been dated back to the 2nd millennium BC among a community of West Semitic laborers in the Sinai Peninsula. Exposed to the idea of writing through
History_of_the_alphabet
Middle Bronze Age script
Here we have common Syrian labourers possessing a script which other Semitic peoples of this region must be credited with knowing." — Flinders Petrie, 1906
Proto-Sinaitic_script
Fallacy in which a word's history defines its meaning
one implied by the structure of the word—racism against any of the Semitic peoples. False friends Folk etymology – Process of reinterpretive word formation
Etymological_fallacy
Ideology of Aryan supremacy
of Aryan and anti-Semitic history can be found in Alfred Rosenberg's major work, The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Semitic peoples came to be seen as
Aryanism
South African citizens of European ancestry
did not target Jews, who were also a Semitic people. Therefore, arguing that if the laws targeted other people from the Levant, it should also affect
White_South_Africans
Topics referred to by the same term
refer to: Aramean language, a subgroup of Northwest Semitic languages Arameans, an ancient Semitic people of the Near East Aramean identity, modern communities
Aramean_(disambiguation)
Semitic-speaking ethnic group in the Horn of Africa
The Harari people (Harari: ጌይ ኡሱኣች / ݘٛىيْ أُسُأَڛْ, Gēy Usuach, "People of the City") is a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which inhabits the Horn of Africa
Harari_people
Arabic dialect spoken in medieval Sicily
it is known as Siculo-Arab. The Maltese are mostly descendants of these people. Brincat, 2005. Maltese – an unusual formula. Originally Maltese was an
Siculo-Arabic
False claims about Jews and Judaism
vicious anti-Semitic canard, frequently repeated by other Soviet writers and officials, is based upon the malicious notion that the "Chosen People" of the
Antisemitic_trope
Semitic-speaking ethnic group in Ethiopia
(Amharic: አማራ, romanized: Āmara; Ge'ez: ዐምሐራ, romanized: ʾÄməḥära) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, traditionally
Amhara_people
Semitic-speaking ethnic group in Ethiopia
ancient Semitic-speaking South Arabian settlers who established themselves around the Lake Zway region and mixed with the indigenous peoples. However
Gurage_people
Ethnic group
referred to the Semitic inhabitants—both settled and nomadic—of the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Desert. In modern usage, it includes people from across
Arabs
Religions attempting to reconstruct ancient Semitic religions
Semitic neopaganism is a group of religions based on or attempting to reconstruct the ancient Semitic religions, mostly practiced among Jews in the United
Semitic_neopaganism
Semitic language
Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai,
Aramaic
Defunct political party
Semitic Action (Hebrew: הפעולה השמית, HaPeulah Hashemit) was a small Israeli political group of the 1950s and 1960s which sought the creation of a regional
Semitic_Action
Archaeological theory
Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC. The Sargasso Sea may have been known to
Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas
Theory_of_Phoenician_discovery_of_the_Americas
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC
romanized: eme-g̃ir or 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi15). The Akkadians, the East Semitic-speaking people who later conquered the Sumerian city-states, gave Sumer its main
Sumer
Semitic people who lived throughout the Levant and Canaan c. 1350 BC
region of Suhum, during the Old Babylonian period. They were famous in Semitic epic poetry for being fierce nomadic warriors, and like the ʿApiru, traditionally
Suteans
"Hebrew, any member of an ancient northern Semitic people that were the ancestors of the Jews." Hebrew (People) at Encyclopædia Britannica Ostrer, Harry
Ethnic_groups_in_Europe
People of Tunisia
are Arabs and Berbers who adhere to Sunni Islam. The Phoenicians, a Semitic people, migrated and settled in the region of present-day Tunisia from the
Tunisians
King and High Priest of Judea
is particularly noted for the Judaization of Galilee and the native Semitic people called the Ituraeans. Josephus, quoting from Strabo's Historica Hypomnemata
Aristobulus_I
Bronze Age people of the Fertile Crescent
Egyptian). Moreover, Meredith Kline finds that Apiru were not even Semitic peoples. The matter was complicated when, in the light of the research on the
ʿApiru
Carthaginian general and statesman (247–183/181 BC)
(Ἀννίβας). The Phoenicians and Carthaginians, like many West Asian Semitic peoples, did not use hereditary surnames but were typically distinguished from
Hannibal
Semitic-speaking ethnic group in Ethiopia
The Tigrayan people (Tigrinya: ተጋሩ, romanized: Təgaru) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia. They
Tigrayans
Asiatic rulers of Dynasty XV of ancient Egypt
century BC, the term Hyksos is used ethnically to designate people of probable West Semitic, Levantine origin. While Manetho portrayed the Hyksos as invaders
Hyksos
Semitic title often used in reference to deities
"owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. Scholars
Baal
Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta
script. It is spoken by the Maltese people and is a national language of Malta, and is the only official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European
Maltese_language
Arabian Sea islander ethnic group
Arabian languages which are closer to the Ethiopian Semitic languages than to Arabic (Central Semitic languages). Despite historical contacts with the Arabic
Soqotrans
1995 book by Benjamin Barber
regret using "Jihad" as it became descriptive and solely applied to Semitic peoples who believe in Islam and not, as he had hoped, applied to both and
Jihad_vs._McWorld
Northwest Semitic supreme deity
boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet. El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one
El_(deity)
Disputed Pre-Indo-European Language Family
Semitic or "Semitidic" (para-Semitic) origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann. He proposed that Semitic-language-speakers
Atlantic_(Semitic)_languages
Topics referred to by the same term
Chaldean Catholics Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia Modern Chaldeans, Assyrian people who are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic
Chaldean
Prejudice and discrimination against Jews based on race or ethnicity
century pseudoscience which was used to justify the belief that the Semitic peoples, including the Jews, were entirely different from the Aryan, or Indo-European
Racial_antisemitism
Historicity of Israelite founding myth
the wilderness. However, movements of small groups of Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples into and out of Egypt during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties
Sources and parallels of the Exodus
Sources_and_parallels_of_the_Exodus
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
Proto-Afroasiatic (PAA), also known as Proto-Hamito-Semitic, Proto-Semito-Hamitic, and Proto-Afrasian, is the hypothetical proto-language from which all
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
Surname list
Jews as a founding father of the Jewish people (Gen. 11-25), and by Muslims as founder of all Semitic peoples (see Abraham). The name is explained in
Abraham_(surname)
historically inaccurate. By the 19th century, theories that Jesus was non-Semitic were being developed, with writers suggesting he was variously white, black
Race_and_appearance_of_Jesus
hinterland.[citation needed] It was inhabited by the Canaanites, a Semitic people, whom the Greeks called "Phoenicians" because of the purple (phoinikies)
History_of_ancient_Lebanon
1916–1962 Belgian territory in Africa
hypothesis which suggested that the Tutsi were partially descended from a Semitic people and were therefore inherently superior to the Hutu who were seen as
Ruanda-Urundi
Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Italian spelling rules as Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is primarily
Tigrinya_language
Ethnic identity
of the DNA of Semitic-speaking peoples, some recent genetic studies have found Y-chromosomal links between modern Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle
Arab_identity
Ethnic group in Ethiopia
The Wolane people are an ethnic group in central Ethiopia. Wolane people speak a Semitic language which is closely related to Sil'te, Zay and Harari languages
Wolane_people
Ethio-Semitic language
Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language
Amharic
Period of ancient Egyptian history (1700–1550 BC)
western Delta. In the north, Lower Egypt was overrun by the Hyksos, a Semitic people from across the Sinai. According to Manetho, invaders from the east
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
Second_Intermediate_Period_of_Egypt
State of medically-controlled temporary loss of sensation or awareness
known mention of the poppy is in the language of the Sumerians, a non-Semitic people who descended from the uplands of Central Asia into Southern Mesopotamia
Anesthesia
Canaanite god
death. The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet;
Mot_(god)
Title used by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
Orientalist views of the alleged "supremacy" of the Aryan peoples and the "mediocrity" of the Semitic peoples, Iranian nationalist discourse idealized pre-Islamic
Aryamehr
Capital city of Syria
documented as an important city during the arrival of the Aramaeans, a Semitic people, in the 11th century BC. By the start of the first millennium BC, several
Damascus
Ethnic group in Eritrea
and semantically untenable. The term Kebessa might derive from the South-Semitic root kbs meaning "to embrace" or "to encompass," and its original meaning
Tigrinya_people
Extinct ancient Phoenician language
Phoenician language, a Canaanite language of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages. An offshoot of the Phoenician language of coastal
Punic_language
Home of many cradles of civilization
16th century BC. The Aramaeans were a Semitic (West Semitic language group), semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who had lived in upper Mesopotamia and
Ancient_Near_East
Basic question about Jewish identity
"Hebrew, any member of an ancient northern Semitic people that were the ancestors of the Jews." Hebrew (People) at Encyclopædia Britannica Eli Lederhendler
Who_is_a_Jew?
Judith (1997). "Arabic Dialects and Maltese". In Hetzron, Robert (ed.). The Semitic Languages. Routledge. pp. 263–311. ISBN 978-0-415-05767-7. Norman, Jerry
List of languages by number of native speakers
List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
Arab ethnographic group in southern Arabia
their Mahri language, which is a Semitic language belonging to the eastern family within the group of South Semitic languages, and it is a language closely
Mahris
1934–1943 Italian colony in North Africa
Phoenician research was partly because of anti-Semitic reasons (the Phoenicians were a Semitic people, distantly related to the Arabs and Jews). Of special
Italian_Libya
One hundred years, from 1300 BC to 1201 BC
proto-Aramaic people, during the reign of Adad-nirari I, in the region of the north of the Euphrates. The Aramaeans, a Semitic people reported from the
13th_century_BC
Ethnic group in Ethiopia
might have on them. The Argobba traditionally speak Argobba, an Ethiopian Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. According to Getahun Amare
Argobba_people
Exchange of goods and services
Phoenicians, an ancient Semitic people who inhabited a narrow coastal strip along the eastern Mediterranean Sea, were the first people of antiquity whose prosperity
Commerce
Central Semitic language
Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization
Arabic
Ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier used to refer to Ethiopians and Eritreans
"Habesha" represented northern Ethiopian Highland Semitic-speaking Amhara, Tigrayan, and Tigrinya people. Eventually, the word was expanded to denote a unified
Habesha_peoples
Extinct ethnic group of Ethiopia
spoke the Gafat language, an extinct South Ethiopic grouping within the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and
Gafat_people
Burning of a dead body as a disposal method
theology, which prohibited cremation. This was also widely adopted by Semitic peoples. The Babylonians, according to Herodotus, embalmed their dead. Phoenicians
Cremation
Archaeological culture of Mesopotamia
dominated by Sumer and primarily occupied by the Sumerian people, who spoke a non-Semitic language isolate (Sumerian). It is debated whether Sumerian
Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)
Early_Dynastic_Period_(Mesopotamia)
Extinct Semitic language used in the third millennium BC
also known as Eblan by ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named
Eblaite_language
Study of cultures that used cuneiform writing
a paper suggesting that cuneiform was instead invented by some non-Semitic people who had preceded the Semites in Babylon. In 1853, Rawlinson came to
Assyriology
country. In the north, graves associated with the Hyksos, a western Semitic people ruling the north from the northeast delta, include small mudbrick structures
Ancient Egyptian funerary practices
Ancient_Egyptian_funerary_practices
Politically motivated accusations of antisemitism
criticise [Israel] is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic, as if the Palestinians were not Semitic ... People are scared in this country [the US] to say wrong
Weaponization_of_antisemitism
Ethnic group in Ethiopia
Central Ethiopia Regional State. Silt'e people speak the Siltʼe language, a Semitic language, which is closely related to the Harari language. Siltʼe denote
Siltʼe_people
The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical sources for understanding of the
Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
Canaanite_and_Aramaic_inscriptions
Attack on a street in the German capital of Berlin
Tagesspiegel, 20 April 2018 Attacker in anti-Semitic video turns himself in to police, DW.com, 19 April 2018 "Anti-Semitic crimes increase dramatically in Germany"
2018 Berlin antisemitic attack
2018_Berlin_antisemitic_attack
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