The origins of semitic languages

• Main Authors: Yaacob, Solehah@Nik Najah Fadilah, Yeob, Shamsul Jamili
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press 2011
• Subjects: B108 Ancient; G Geography (General); GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; GN Anthropology; PJ6001 Arabic; PJ6690 Ancient Arabic
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/25834/1/Chapter_4.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/25834/; http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx

`Semitic` is a word introduced by Schlozer in 1780 to denote the group of languages evolved from Aramaic, Pheonic, Hebrew, Arabic, Yemen, Babylonian and Assyrian. He understood them to be languages of the descendents of Prophet Noah. From the time of the Upper Palaeolithic age, the descendents of A...