#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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