Semitic languages
Semitic languages subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages .
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Studies in semitic and afroasiatic linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 444 words
; ...9781885923417 Studies in semitic and afroasiatic linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg...them consider links between different Afroasiatic languages, but the others are devoted to Semitic languages. Among the topics are a functional...
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Athena, Martin Bernal attempts to derive Greek civilization and language from Egypt and the Semitic Near East. Volume 1 (1987) argues...true: Egyptian settlement of Greece, Greek borrowings of language and ideas (e.g. Plato's) from Egypt. What would this...
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece: 1785-1985.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Geuthner, 1976-1985). The authors omit any mention of the fact that the language has been identified, analyzed, and described, with passages not only...with formulae in the corpora of Northwest Semitic epigraphy. The Minoan language o
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference...By PAUL NEWMAN. Yale Language Series. New Haven...2000. Pp. xl + 760. Afroasiatic languages number well into the...the Chadic branch of Afroasiatic with approximately 150...
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Hausa and the Chadic Language Family: A Bibliography.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Chadic subbranch of Afroasiatic, since, with so many languages still spoken, Chadic...Transliteration of the Hausa Language into Braille...and East European Languages and beneficially...specializing in Afroasiatic: Viktor Porxomovsky...
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Ongota; a decisive language in African prehistory.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 491 words
; ...9783447051248 Ongota; a decisive language in African prehistory. Fleming...convinced that Ongota is an Afroasiatic language but in a class by itself...ancestor with the Cushtic languages; he uses a number of methods...and morphology of an orphan language through statistical and ...
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NAACP chapter urges Princeton to adopt African language studies
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/19/1998; ; 542 words
; ...languages fluently. "The only Afroasiatic languages taught here are Arabic and...important to teach African languages in order to appreciate a...the Department of Romance Languages and Literature," Charles...schools that offer African language courses. "There is no reason...
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On Language: All in the Family
Newspaper article from: Forward; 2/19/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Moabite and other extinct languages) belonging to Northwest...the original Semitic language, which spread to the...Hamitic and today called Afroasiatic, that includes numerous African languages like ancient Egyptian...Shilha. Although a language like Hausa, spoken...state-of-the-art ...
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The controversy over Ebonics. (Black English Language)
Magazine article from: Phi Delta Kappan; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to some degree. A language is a pattern of words...outside that group. Some languages are spoken by hundreds...use it as their first language - and who knows how...Newman, Hausa - a language in the AfroAsiatic phylum of the Chadic...about 135 distinct languages) - claims around 25...
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Polygenesis, Convergence and Entropy: An Alternative Model of Linguistic Evolution Applied to Semitic Linguistics
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...extent with other Afroasiatic languages, and only occasionally with other language families like...Language Change and Language Relationship...deplorable since Afroasiatic languages offer some unique...Indoeuropean languages. Edzard's...of all proto-language, ...
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Afroasiatic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Since four of the Afroasiatic tongues, Arabic...respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism...Christian faith, the language family reaches many...native speakers. The Afroasiatic family is divided...one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family are thought...theory holds that ...
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African languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa...estimated that more than 800 languages are spoken in Africa; however...belong to comparatively few language families. Some 50 African languages have more than half a million...now generally said to be Afroasiatic ; ...
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Arabic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Semitic subdivision of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). The Arabic languages comprise North Arabic...be considered a separate language. North Arabic North Arabic...Malay, Hausa, and Swahili languages, among others. South Arabian...or ...
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Egyptian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Egyptian language extinct language of ancient Egypt, a member of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). The development of ancient Egyptian is usually divided into four periods: (1) Old Egyptian, spoken and written...
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Hebrew language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hebrew language member of the Canaanite group of the West...subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). Hebrew was the language of the Jewish people in biblical times, and...
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