(noun.) a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
(adj.) of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; 'Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology' .
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Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The Semitic nomads of the Arabian desert seem also to have had a heliolithic stage. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The earliest ships on the sea were either Sumerian or Hamitic; the Semitic peoples followed close upon these pioneers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. 李贝.西洋科学史.
And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Until after the time of Alexander the Great there are few traces of any Aryan or Semitic, much less of Hamitic influence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Even the Semitic languages have been approached at a disadvantage because few Jews think in Hebrew. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The operations of the Arameans and such-like Semitic trading people led to the organization of credit and monetary security. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
We write here of the nomadic peoples, the Aryan herdsmen and Semitic shepherds, and we write in the most general terms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The newcomers learnt the Sumerian writing (the cuneiform writing) and the Sumerian language; they set up no Semitic writing of their own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The Semitic peoples, we may point out here, are to this day _counting peoples_ strong in their sense of equivalents and reparation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
With each invasion first this and then that section of the Semitic peoples comes into history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.