Semitology

Semitology

Semitology is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic peoples.

It includes Assyriology, Hebraist and Syriacist studies as well as comparative studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstrucion of Proto-Semitic.

Literature

Garbini Giovanni, Durand Olivier, "Introduzione alle lingue semitiche" (1994), ISBN 8839405062 (review: Franz Rosenhal; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996)

ee also

*Asian studies
*African studies


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