Tārīkh-i zabān'hā-yi sāmī: Persian 1400

Semitic or Semitic languages are one of the sub-branches of the Afro-Asian language family, whose roots go back to the Middle East. These languages have more than 330 million speakers in West Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa, as well as in large immigrant groups in North America, Europe, and Australasia. This phrase was used for the first time in the 1780s. It was used by members of the Göttingen school of historiography, who based it on Shem, one of Noah's three sons in Genesis. The most widely spoken Semitic languages in the world today are Arabic (300 million), Amharic (~65 million), Tigrinya (7 million), Hebrew (~5 million), Tigray (~1.05 million), Aramaic (575,000) up to 1 million) and Maltese (483,000). Semitic languages are found in written form from very early times: the East Semitic languages Akkadian and Abelian in the 30th to 25th centuries BC. M. They are found in Mesopotamia and Northern Shamat, respectively. Only documents from Sumerian, Elamite (both mono-family languages), Egyptian, and Lului before the CMP century. M. There is. Most Semitic scripts are of the Abjad type - a type in which all or most of the vowels are not represented, which is suitable for Semitic languages because consonants are the main conveyance of meaning. Among these lines, we can mention Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and South Arabian. In this book, Israel Wolfenson presents a history of these languages and examines them. Israel Wolfenson (1899-1980) was an Israeli writer, historian, and scholar, best known for his books and studies in Arabic on the Jewish people in Arabia and the Semitic languages.