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Semitic languages: distribution
cuneiform tablet
Medieval Hebrew: Sefardic script
Qurʾān: Kūfic script
Semitic language family
Distribution of the Afro-Asiatic languages.
migration of Afro-Asiatic languages
Relationships among the modern Afro-Asiatic languages.
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Antoine Galland, engraving by Morel after a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud
Antoine Galland
French scholar
Charles Cutler Torrey
American biblical scholar
Johannes Peder Ejler Pedersen
Danish scholar
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Wilhelm Gesenius
German biblical critic
Nöldeke, Theodor
Theodor Nöldeke
German linguist

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