wrong rigby----SEMITIC LANGUAGE GROUP-----not "arab language group" There
were SEMITIC languages long before allah invented arabic and LONG LONG before
He decided to grant them an alphabet
Wrong
It is VERY ignorant to think that Arabic is the original Semitic Arab language.
Aramaic and Hebrew are Arab Semitic languages that existed long before Arabic.
The Phoenicians and their phonetic alphabet is also a Semitic Arab language.
The word "Semitic" means "of an Arab language group".
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Semitic
Refers to the peoples, languages, and cultures of the descendants of Noah’s son Shem, who are known as Semites.—
Ge 10:21-31.
The early Semites included various Arabian tribes, as well as the Aramaeans (or, Syrians), the Assyrians, the early Chaldeans, the Elamites, the Hebrews, and others. They inhabited much of the southwestern corner of the Asiatic continent, including most of the Fertile Crescent and a large portion of the Arabian Peninsula.
In Bible times, Semitic languages included Akkadian (spoken in Assyria and Babylon), Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and the languages of the neighboring nations of Israel, such as the Ammonites and the Moabites. (
Ge 11:27; 19:30, 37, 38) No other language family has a longer recorded history.
When a word, name, or idiom is termed “Semitic,” it means that its origin is from a Semitic language or that it has characteristics that can be found in a Semitic language.
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So while Semitic includes those who speak Hebrew, it does not refer only to Jews, but to all who speak a native Arab language.
But it does not refer to Ashkenazi Jews because their native language, Yiddish, is of Germanic origins and is not of Arab origins.