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This course aims at introducing the concept and origins of Semitic languages in comparative studies for Western people, its scientific validity from the point of view of Arab scholars, and the other existing alternative terms for it. It also focuses on the linguistic classifications of languages in general and the family of Semitic languages in specific, and the term of the mother Semitic language and it will highlight its features. It focuses on the main branches of Semitic languages: North and South, and the daughters of each language , the place of Arabic language in the two groups, with a concentration on the knowledge of the most dialectal important features in the languages of the two groups, i.e., with a focus on the Arab properties in multiple levels. The course also aims at training students on analyzing some of the inscriptions of Semitic languages, on comparing them to North Arabic language of the Quran, and on teaching them some important alphabets, such as that of the Napatean and Hebrew languages. |