Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...in Arabic kitab, "book," and kutub, "books." Two genders, masculine and feminine, are found in Semitic languages...Semitic. The writings in Ugaritic are important in the study of the Hebrew language and biblical literature of the early...Tarifit), Siwi, Zenaga, and others. Grammatically, gender and number are indicated by prefixes and suffixes. The...in Semitic Phonology and Morphology (1985); G. Khan, Studies in Semitic Syntax (1989...