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Linguistic Introduction: The Orthography, Morphology and Syntax of Semitic Languages

2014; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-45358-8_1

2192-0338

Ray Fabri, Michael Gasser, Nizar Habash, George Kiraz, Shuly Wintner,

African history and culture analysis

We present in this chapter some basic linguistic facts about Semitic languages, covering orthography, morphology, and syntax. We focus on Arabic (both standard and dialectal), Ethiopian languages (specifically, Amharic), Hebrew, Maltese and Syriac. We conclude the chapter with a contrastive analysis of some of these phenomena across the various languages.