Semitic

“Of course it could be frustrating,” said her daughter Brigitte, an elegant, soft-spoken scholar of Semitic languages who has managed Caland’s estate since her death in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

“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

This is what drove Maimonides, the twelfth-century rabbi, to write a tome to reconcile the Semitic, Eastern Bible with the Greek, Western philosophy that permeated Europe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife