Semitologist

Semitic studies

Semitic studies

Study of the Semitic peoples

Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called a Semiticist or a Semitist, both terms being equivalent.

It includes Assyriology, Arabic, Hebraist, Syriacist, Mandaean, and Ethiopian studies, as well as comparative studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic.

See also

Sources

  • Gotthelf Bergsträsser: Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen: Sprachproben und grammatische Skizzen, Nachdruck, Darmstadt 1993.
  • Carl Brockelmann: Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen, Bd. 1-2, 1908/1913.
  • David Cohen: Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques.
  • Giovanni Garbini, Olivier Durand: Introduzione alle lingue semitiche (1994), ISBN 88-394-0506-2 (review: Franz Rosenhal; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996).
  • Robert Hetzron (ed.): The Semitic Languages, London 1997.
  • Burkhart Kienast: Historische semitische Sprachwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2001.


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