Semitic

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Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to thatdivision of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, andrelated races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name usedto designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some livingand some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, Assyrian,Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.

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Semitic is an adjective which in common parlance mistakenly refers specifically to Jewish things, while the term actually refers to things originating among speakers of Semitic languages or people descended from them, and in a linguistic context to the northeastern subfamily of Afro-Asiatic.

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Family of related languages long spoken across part of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most wide–spread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic.

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relating to the race of people that includes Arabs and Jews, or to their languages: