Semitic

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Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta.

Semitic may also refer to:

People

• Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
• Semitic people, a term used in the grouping of Semitic languages in linguistics, an obsolete term for an ethnic or cultural group, or a partially or completely devalued term for a racial group

Religions

• Ancient Semitic religion
• Semitic religions (disambiguation)

Other linguistic terms

• Proto-Semitic language
• Semitic root
• Semitic studies

See also

• Semitism (disambiguation)
• Shem

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