Semitic
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Conservator Margalida Munar, papyrologist Leah Mascia, and Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, professor in the Department of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages, classical philologist, and director of the Oxyrhynchus project, examined the fragile document.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Semitic men and women walked the desert with animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025
“These minor errors indicate that the priest was not a native Greek speaker but likely someone from the region who was raised speaking a Semitic language,” he said in the statement.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
And then shortly after that, we also found some passages written in an ancient Semitic language called Akkadian that is related to Hebrew and Arabic today.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2023
From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
