#Semitic  a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
  supertype:  #Afroasiatic_language__Afroasiatic__Afrasian__Afrasian_language__Hamito-Semitic  a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
  subtype:  #Akkadian  an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
     subtype:  #Assyrian  an extinct language of the Assyrians regarded as a dialect of Akkadian
  subtype:  #Amharic__Ethiopian_language  the dominant and official language of Ethiopia; a semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language with which Amhara people have been in close contact
  subtype:  #Arabic_language__Arabic  the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
  subtype:  #Aramaic  an ancient group of related Semitic dialects some of which are still spoken in Syria
     subtype:  #Biblical_Aramaic  the form of Aramaic that was spoken in Palestine in the time of the New Testament
  subtype:  #Canaanitic_language__Canaanitic  a group of Semitic languages
     subtype:  #Hebrew  the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel
        subtype:  #Modern_Hebrew  Hebrew used in Israel today; revived from ancient Hebrew
     subtype:  #Canaanite  the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest
     subtype:  #Phoenician  the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
        subtype:  #Punic  the Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
     subtype:  #Ugaritic  an extinct Semitic language of northern Syria

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