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by jonstewart 522 days ago
And in linguistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
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thaumasiotes 522 days ago
It's not specialized at all; "Semitic" is the only word for this concept used in English.

In German they still talk about Hamito-Semitic languages, but we call those Afroasiatic now.

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