Semitic studies explained

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

• Asian studies
• African studies
• Philology

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), (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.