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- and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. ... others are in a previously unknown Semitic language now known as Eblaite ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- may have evolved into Linear B, a written language that replaced Linear A around ... of ancient Greek. Linear A represents the language of the Minoan people before ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- In most Semitic languages, the word Abba (also rendered Ab or Aba ... For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- most particularly through the accounts of Semitic speaking people of Akkadian ... to be the homeland of the Proto-Semitic language family. This language ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- interest in the inter-connections among language, thinking, and culture. ... so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents. When he ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- American linguist. Originally a student of Semitic languages, he is best known ... in the country. He started his career in Semitic languages, and spent some ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's works were ... in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he also began ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- modifications to Sumerian orthography. The Semitic equivalents for many signs ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written ... debated. Many consider him to have been a Semitic fertility deity similar ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- the study of the ancient Hebrew language in which the Tanakh is written ... to develop the study of the Hebrew language. He also launched a vigorous ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Furthermore, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was ... Hyksos period) along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins ... for the understanding of ancient West Semitic culture in general, including ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... B.C.E. Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language, related to Hebrew and ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... pronounced according to the tradition of Semitic languages. El should be ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors ... Committee in 1948 and launched an anti-Semitic campaign against so-called ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- among the Canaanite languages in the Semitic language family. In addition ... While the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, and some evidence of ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- As the Babylonian and Semitic societies were closely related (in terms ... Tiamat has also been claimed to be also cognate with West Semitic ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- to some degree with later western Semitic gods such as the Canaanite ... The later name Ea is either Hurrian or Semitic in origin. ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing ... beginning in the eighteenth dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu (& ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ... and what was thought. His conclusion that language often serves to mask thought ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ... in Yemen. Ishmael learned the Arabic language and he spoke it fluently ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- overeating, skipping school, and foul language. The books taught children ... the book to the Jews and Judaism as anti-semitic. For instance, in the first ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- he had become proficient in the Persian language, he was sent, together with ... signs that were written in a strange language unknown to him. Since he ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- ) Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by ... daytime, he continued his researches in Semitic philology. In 1847, he obtained ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete ... a reasonably accurate record of an early Semitic textual variant, now lost ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- ” the capital of the Ammonites, a Semitic people spoken of in the Bible. ... The city became part of the ancient Arab, Semitic, trading kingdom ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- also revealed the Soviet state's own anti-semitic tendencies. Several attempts were made to build a memorial at Babi Yar to commemorate the fate ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- are believed by some Christians to be anti-Semitic. Indeed, the word Marcionism is sometimes used in modern times to refer to anti-Jewish tendencies ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was also a major god, perhaps ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- climate, although a pre-Greek or Semitic origin of origanum is also possible (Rogers 2004b). ==Uses== ===Culinary=== [[Image:Oregano_in_Pot.jpg ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- modern history and was appropriated in anti-semitic tracts. ... Another film version, intended for anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ... The Pope did not respond to Stein's letter. Anti-Semitic legislation ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Idumæa or Idumea. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- in 1919, where he received a degree in semitic languages at the University ... Buber, Scholem believed in the power of language to invoke supernatural phenomena ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- that the Greek word may be derived from a Semitic root, ābāq (pronounced "a-vak"), the Hebrew word for "dust." Though details ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic ... it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- nationalistic, non-conformist, and anti-semitic pro-fascist journals such ... the ambiguous rhetorical nature of language, and the problematic nature ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- With very few variations, the Moabite language of the inscription ... consistent with the common use of language in the ancient Near East. ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- of Sumer were Akkadians, not Sumerians. Semitic Akkadian became the lingua ... became vassals of Akkad, and the Akkadian language made official. In fact, ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- the First Epistle of John echoes the language and several of the themes ... advanced age. The epistle's content, language and conceptual style are ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- the one used for Aramaic (the official language of Achaemenids) developed ... hence, influencing each others language. Tribhuvandas L. Shah, Ancient ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with Ancient ... The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people and were at one time believed ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- and Albişoara Streets. The English language name for the city was based ... Growing anti-semitic sentiment in Russia in the late nineteenth century ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
