Semitic

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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

At some point, its people had adapted Sumerian cuneiform to their own language, which, like Akkadian, belonged to the Semitic family of languages, and archaeologists have discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets at the site.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Just like Saint Augustine 800 years earlier, Maimonides tried to reshape the Semitic Bible to fit into Greek doctrine: doctrine that had an unreasonable fear of the void.

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