Semitic languages — Infobox Language family name=Semitic region=Middle East, North Africa, Northeast Africa and Malta familycolor=Afro Asiatic child1=East Semitic (extinct) child2=West Semitic child3=South Semitic iso2=semThe Semitic languages are a language family… … Wikipedia
Semitic — In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical Shem , Hebrew: שם, translated as name , Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages.This family includes… … Wikipedia
Afro-Asiatic languages — formerly Hamito Semitic languages Family of about 250 languages spoken in North Africa, parts of sub Saharan African, and the Middle East. It includes such languages as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa. The total number of speakers is estimated … Universalium
South Semitic — Infobox Language family name = South Semitic region = Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Eritrea familycolor = Afro Asiatic fam2 = Semitic child1 = Eastern (Modern South Arabian) child2 = Western (Old South Arabian, Ethiopian)South Semitic is one of the… … Wikipedia
Ge'ez alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Ge ez abugida type=Abugida languages=Ethiopian Semitic languages (e.g. Ge ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Harari, etc.), Blin, Me en, formerly Oromo time=5th 6th c. BC to the present (abjad until ca. 330 AD) fam1=Proto… … Wikipedia
punctuation — punctuational, punctuative, adj. /pungk chooh ay sheuhn/, n. 1. the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or… … Universalium
Enrico Cerulli — (February 15 1898 September 19 1988) was an Italian scholar of Ethiopian studies. Life Enrico Cerulli was born in Naples in 1898. His wrote his doctoral thesis at the university of Naples on the traditional law of the Somali Majeerteen. At the… … Wikipedia
Habesha people — ethnic group group=Habesha poptime=varies depending on definition; high of 80,000,000 (all Ethiopians and Eritreans), low of 31,363,300 (all Amharas and Tigray Tigrinyas) popplace= (Strict definition) Ethiopia: 29,300,000cite… … Wikipedia
Ge'ez language — Infobox Language name=Ge ez nativename=Unicode|ግዕዝ transl|sem|Gəʿəz Ethiopic pronunciation= [ɡɨʕɨz] states=Ethiopia, Eritrea and Israel extinct=Extinct [GEE] ] by the 13th centuryFact|date=February 2007, remains in use as a liturgical language No … Wikipedia
Olga Kapeliuk — Prof. Olga Kapeliuk (Hebrew: אולגה קפליוק; b. 1932, Kraków, Poland) is an Israeli linguist. Kapeliuk, who is professor emeritus of linguistics and African studies, was cited as being among the most important Israeli linguists and researchers of… … Wikipedia
