The term “Semitic” originally comes from the Biblical figure Shem (one of Noah’s sons) and was later used by linguists to describe one of the major branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family – a linguistic and cultural, not racial,…

The term “Semitic” originally comes from the Biblical figure Shem (one of Noah’s sons) and was later used by linguists to describe one of the major branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family – a linguistic and cultural, not racial,…