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adjectives Afro-Asiatic Akkadian Amharic Amorite ancient Arabic colloquials Aramaic Argobba assimilation Assyro-Babylonian attested basic stem Bedja broken plural Canaanite century A.D. Classical Arabic clause consonant corresponding cuneiform derived diphthong dual e.g. Arabic e.g. Hebrew East Semitic Ebla Egyptian ending Ethiopian languages Ethiopic express feminine fricative function Gafat Ge'ez geminated gender genitive glottal grammatical Greek guages Gurage dialects Harari imperfect indicate inflection inscriptions jussive Libyco-Berber linguistic masc masculine meaning Mehri millennium B.C. Modern South Arabian morpheme Nabataean Neo-Aramaic nominal North Semitic noun occurs Old Akkadian Old Babylonian original Palaeosyrian participle particle pattern perfect pharyngal Phoenician phonemes plur plural predicate prefix preposition preterite pronominal suffix Proto-Semitic Punic radical root Sabaic script Semitic languages sentence singular South Ethiopic spoken stative syllable Syriac texts Tigre Tigrinya tion Tuareg Ugaritic variant velar verb verbal form vocalic vowel West Semitic word