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{{Short description|Study of the Semitic peoples}}
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'''Semitic studies''', or '''Semitology''', is the academic field dedicated to the studies of [[Semitic languages]] and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called a ''Semiticist'' or a ''Semitist'', both terms being equivalent.

It includes [[Assyriology]], [[Arabic studies|Arabic]], [[Hebraist]], [[Syriacist]], [[Mandaean studies|Mandaean]], and [[Ethiopian studies|Ethiopian]] studies, as well as comparative studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstruction of [[Proto-Semitic]].

==See also==
*[[Asian studies]]
*[[African studies]]
*[[Middle Eastern studies]]
*[[Philology]]
*[[Study of the Hebrew language]]

==Sources==
*[[Gotthelf Bergsträsser]]: ''Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen: Sprachproben und grammatische Skizzen'', Nachdruck, Darmstadt 1993.
*[[Carl Brockelmann]]: ''Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen'', Bd. 1-2, 1908/1913.
*[[David Cohen (historian)|David Cohen]]: ''Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques''.
*Giovanni Garbini, Olivier Durand: ''Introduzione alle lingue semitiche'' (1994), {{ISBN|88-394-0506-2}} (review: Franz Rosenhal; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996).
*[[Robert Hetzron]] (ed.): ''The Semitic Languages'', London 1997.
*Burkhart Kienast: ''Historische semitische Sprachwissenschaft'', Wiesbaden 2001.

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