Search results for "Semitic language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- modifications to Sumerian orthography. The Semitic equivalents for many signs ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written ... debated. Many consider him to have been a Semitic fertility deity similar ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- הדד; Ugaritic Haddu) was an important northwest Semitic storm and fertility god, identical with the Akkadian weather god Adad. Hadad is often called ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 22:09, 21 June 2024
- the study of the ancient Hebrew language in which the Tanakh is written ... to develop the study of the Hebrew language. He also launched a vigorous ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Furthermore, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was ... Hyksos period) along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins ... for the understanding of ancient West Semitic culture in general, including ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... B.C.E. Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language, related to Hebrew and ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... pronounced according to the tradition of Semitic languages. El should be ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors ... Committee in 1948 and launched an anti-Semitic campaign against so-called ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- among the Canaanite languages in the Semitic language family. In addition ... While the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, and some evidence of ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- As the Babylonian and Semitic societies were closely related (in terms ... Tiamat has also been claimed to be also cognate with West Semitic ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing ... beginning in the eighteenth dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu (& ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- to some degree with later western Semitic gods such as the Canaanite ... The later name Ea is either Hurrian or Semitic in origin. ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ... and what was thought. His conclusion that language often serves to mask thought ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ... in Yemen. Ishmael learned the Arabic language and he spoke it fluently ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- overeating, skipping school, and foul language. The books taught children ... the book to the Jews and Judaism as anti-semitic. For instance, in the first ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
