Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group [2] [3] [4] [5] associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The …

Mar 6, 2025 · Semite, obsolete term, popularized in the 19th century, that originally described a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages that …

Serious scholars have pointed out — repeatedly and ineffectually — that “Semitic” is a linguistic and cultural classification, denoting certain languages and in some contexts the literatures and …

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa, including the Levant, …

Sep 29, 2017 · Semitic people occupy a relatively small portion of the world geographically, but they have held significant historic, cultural and religious importance. The diverse cultures and …

May 17, 2018 · Semites are people of the Middle East and Africa who speak one of the Semitic languages, which are branches of the Afro-Asiatic family. Examples of such languages are …

Mar 3, 2019 · Today Semitic languages are spoken by hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa. The term anti-Semitic, however, refers to a person who is …

An ethno-linguistic grouping of Semitic language-speaking peoples, including Arabs, Hebrew, and Assyrians. It should not be confused with the obsolete ethnic or racial term Semitic people.

Feb 24, 2025 · Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest …

The Semitic peoples, in the biblical narrative, trace their origins to Shem, and their collective identity unfolds across the pages of Scripture through genealogies, cultural records, …