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"Semitic" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The Arabian peninsula has long been accepted as the original Semitic Urheimat by a majority of scholars.
I love Semitic languages.
Berber isn't a Semitic language.
An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.
Berber is not a Semitic language.
Berber, an Afroasiatic language, is loosely related to Semitic languages.
Berber belongs to the same Afroasiatic language family Semitic languages belong to.
Maltese is the only Semitic language native to Europe.
Berber and Semitic languages diverged from each other several thousands of years ago.
Berber diverges from Semitic languages while still belonging to the same Afroasiatic family Semitic languages belong to.
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On the other hand, scholars say that the Philistines were an Indo-European people not related to the Semitic Palestinians.
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Thus we trace ever and again the similarities which are to be found among the Semitic religions.
The Semitic religions (Christianity and Islam) are nationally honored in much of Africa.
In contrast to these Semitic religions some religions of Indian origin like Buddhism and Jainism, are pacifist to the extent of banning the killing of animals even for food.
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