The Semitic Languages

<P><I><br/><br/><P>The Semitic Languages </I>presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the followin</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>¿ new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology</P><br/><br/><P>¿ an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic</P><br/><br/><P>¿ text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation</P><br/><br/><P>¿ new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>This unique resource