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Languages on this page so far are Amharic, Canaanite, Chaldean, Geez, Gurage, Harari, Phoenician, Punic, Syriac, Ugaritic, and Ya'udi.
updated 12-24-2001 Amharic (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Ethiopic sub-branch of the Southern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Amharic is written in Amharic script. 492.8 Leslau, Wolf L631a Amharic textbook. -- Harrassowitz, 1968. RID: 68-15587 ITEM #: amh00001 492.8 Leslau, Wolf L631et Ethiopian argots. -- Mouton, 1964 RID: wln88-102248 ITEM #: amh00002 Amharic
updated 5-1-2003 Canaanite (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Canaanite-Phoenician sub-branch of the Northern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Canaanite was spoken in Biblical times in the land then called Canaan, now Israel. 492.29 Aufrecht, Walter E D686kYa A synoptic concordance of Aramaic inscriptions RID: 75-12776 ITEM #: can00001 Canaanite
updated 9-6-2002 Chaldean (Afro-Asiatic) is a variety of Akkadian which was spoken in Biblical times in the Near East. It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. 492.432 Davidson, Benjamin, d. 1871 D252a The analytical Hebrew and Chaldee ... RID: 36-21708 ITEM #: chl00001 492.432 Gesenius, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm, 1786-1842 G389h.Et Gesenius's Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament scriptures RID: wln86-108067 ITEM #: chl00002 Q Mandelkern, Salomen, 1846-1902 221.2 *Hekhal ha-kodesh M271h 1937 RID: ITEM #: chl00003 909.4 Rome reborn / edited by Anthony Grafton. -- Washington X : Library of Congress, in association with R763 Vatican City : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1993 RID: 92-33013 ITEM #: chi00221 737.30956 Schmandt-Besserat, Denise S348b Before writing. -- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1992 RID: 90-23615 ITEM #: tsi00002 Chaldean
updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. Also called Classical Ethiopic, Geez belongs to the Ethiopic sub-branch of the Southern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. 492.8 Lambdin, Thomas Oden L219i Introduction to Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) RID: 78-12895 ITEM #: gez00001 Geez
updated 5-1-2003 Gurage (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Ethiopic sub-branch of the Southern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Gurage is spoken in Ethiopia; dialects include East Gurage (also called Silti), Central West Gurage, Indegegn (also called Indegegne, Endegen, Indagen, and Endagany), Innemor (also called Ennemor, Ennamor, and Inor), North Gurage, and Peripheral West Gurage. 492.8 Leslau, Wolf L631et Ethiopian argots RID: wln88-102248 ITEM #: gur00001 Gurage
updated 5-1-2003 Harari (Afro-Asiatic), also called Adare, belongs to the Ethiopic sub-branch of the Southern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is spoken in Ethiopia. 492.8 Leslau, Wolf L631e Etymological dictionary of Harari RID: 64-63463 ITEM #: har00001 Harari
updated 9-5-2002 Phoenician (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Canaanitic-Phoenician sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Phoenician was spoken in what is now Lebanon prior to the 6th century C.E. It was written with its own alphabet, now generally believed to have been the forerunner of the Greek alphabet. 909.04924 Everyman's Judaica / edited by Geoffrey Wigoder. E936 -- Jerusalem : Keter Pub. House, 1975 RID: 75-318522 ITEM #: heb00120 938 Hale, William Harlan, 1910-1974 H168a.a The Horizon book of ancient Greece. -- New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., 1965 RID: 65-19377 ITEM #: gre00262 411 McCarter, Peter Kyle, 1945- M123a The antiquity of the Greek alphabet ... RID: 76-1430 ITEM #: pho00001 492.6 Peckham, John Brian P368d The development of the late ... RID: 68-17629 ITEM #: pho00002 495.65 Sekai no naka no Nihongo / henshu komon, Doi Tadao, S463 Morimatsu Yoshiaki ; henshu iin, Kamei Takashi, Daito Tokihiko, Yamada Toshio. -- Tokyo : Heibonsha, 1965 Includes a comparative chart of early alphabets. RID: wln96-52460 ITEM #: gre00237 492.6 Segert, Stanislav S454g A grammar of Phoenician and Punic RID: 76-379591 ITEM #: pho00003 492.6 Tomback, Richard S T656c A comparative Semitic lexicon ... RID: 76-55377 ITEM #: pho00004 Phoenician
updated 6-24-2002 Punic (Afro-Asiatic) is a later variety of Phoenician which was carried to Carthage, an ancient city-state in north Africa. Punic was in use as late as the sixth century A.D. It was written with the Phoenician alphabet. 492.6 Segert, Stanislav S454g A grammar of Phoenician ... RID: 76-379591 ITEM #: pun00001 492.6 Tomback, Richard S T656c A comparative Semitic lexicon ... RID: 76-55377 ITEM #: pun00002 Punic
updated 9-6-2002 Syriac (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the East Aramaic sub-branch of the Aramaic sub-branch of the Northern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Syriac has been written in several scripts ; one of these is called Estrangelic. 229.912 Bible. O.T. Apocryphal Books. Odes of Solomon. Syriac. 1973 The Odes of Solomon B582o RID: 74-158467 ITEM #: syr00001 220.05 Biblica B582 RID: --- ITEM #: lat00047 F The Home planet / conceived and edited by Kevin W. Kelley 525 for the Association of Space Explorers. -- Reading, H765 Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1988 The Syriac in this book is written with Arabic script. RID: 88-2970 ITEM #: rus00701 780.9569 Idelsohn, A. Z. (Abraham Zebi), 1882-1938 I19j Jewish music in its historic development. -- New 1956 York : Schocken Books, 1967 RID: 67-25236 ITEM #: lad00008 226.207 Philoxenus, Bp. of Hierapolis P569m The "Matthew-Luke" commentary of Philoxenus RID: --- ITEM #: lat00234 492.3 Robinson, Theodore Henry, 1881- R665p Paradigms and exercises ... 1981 RID: 81-18723 ITEM #: syr00002 909.4 Rome reborn / edited by Anthony Grafton. -- Washington X : Library of Congress, in association with Vatican R763 City : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1993 RID: 92-33013 ITEM #: chi00221 745.6709 Weitzmann, Kurt, 1904- W436L Late antique and early Christian book illumination. -- New York : G. Braziller, 1977. RID: 76-16444 (Dynix BIB: 82461) ITEM #: syr00004 224.5 Wyngarden, Martin Jacob W95s The Syriac version of the Book of Daniel RID: --- ITEM #: syr00003 Syriac
updated 6-24-2002 Ugaritic (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Canaanitic-Phoenician sub-branch of the Northern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It was the language of the Ugaritic civilization in the ancient Near East. An Arab farmer found a tablet in his field in 1928 which shortly led to the discovery of Ugarit, and a number of tablets written in Akkadian, Mitanni, and Sumerian, as well as Ugaritic. It proved possible to establish that the tablets were written between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and that although written in the cuneiform style of writing, Ugaritic used an alphabet, unlike most other languages which employed cuneiform. 492.42 Cohen, Harold R C678b Biblical hapax legomena ... RID: 77-13422 ITEM #: uga00001 299.269 Driver, Godfrey Rolles, 1892- D782c Canaanite myths and legends ... RID: 56-59177 ITEM #: uga00002 221.8306875 Greenspahn, Frederick E., 1946- G815w When brothers dwell together : the preeminence of younger siblings in the Hebrew Bible. -- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. RID: 93-28112 ITEM #: ebl00001 892.6 Whitaker, Richard E Y A concordance of the Ugaritic literature. -- W578c Cambridge, Mass. : RID: 74-184104 ITEM #: uga00003 Ugaritic
updated 11-21-2003 Ya'udi (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. 492 Dion, Paul Eugene D592L La langue de Ya'udi ... RID: 77-451869 ITEM #: fre00469 Ya'udi
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