Semitic
noun
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician. Sem, Sem.
non-Semitic
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a word derived from
Semitic.
Example Sentences
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The land was inhabited by a non-Semitic people called the Sumerians.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Koestler's enthusiasm for the idea of a non-Semitic Jewry threatens to drown his own carefully drawn qualifications.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the late Stone Age to 2000 B.C., a non-Semitic people, the Sumerians, dominated the Euphrates Valley, the great "cradle of civilization."
From Time Magazine Archive
That there was a non-Semitic people living in the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris, and that they developed a civilization from which the Babylonian and Assyrians later borrowed, seems clearly established.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
Gudea was non-Semitic in race, but most of the Babylonian kings who were thus deified were Semites.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
