• Amorite is an extinct early Semitic language, formerly spoken during the Bronze Age by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history. It...
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    The Amorites (/ˈæməˌraɪts/; Sumerian: 𒈥𒌅, romanized: MAR.TU; Akkadian: 𒀀𒈬𒊒𒌝, romanized: Amurrūm or 𒋾𒀉𒉡𒌝/𒊎 Tidnum; Hebrew: אֱמֹרִי, romanized: ʾĔmōrī;...
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  • Ugaritic (redirect from Ugaritic (language))
    (/ˌjuːɡəˈrɪtɪk, ˌuː-/) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered...
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  • Tell eth-Thadeyn (category Amorite cities)
    has been speculated that in the Amorite language it was called "Shaddai". The word in Hebrew (closely related to Amorite)[citation needed] for "two breasts"...
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  • El Shaddai (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    Shaddai in the Amorite language. There was a Bronze-Age city in the region called Tuttul, which means "three breasts" in the Sumerian language. The Hebrew...
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  • was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language, very similar to Biblical Hebrew, Ekronite, Ammonite, Phoenician, Amorite and Sutean, spoken by the Edomites...
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    inhabitants spoke the Amorite language, an extinct early Northwest Semitic language classified as a westernmost or Amorite-specific dialect of Ugaritic...
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    El (deity) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-, meaning "god"....
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  • now northeast Syria, among a list of languages spoken in the region. The other languages are Akkadian, Amorite, Gutian, "Subarean" (Hurrian) and Elamite...
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    𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
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  • Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite. These closely related languages originate in the Levant and Mesopotamia, and were spoken...
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    the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate...
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    within the Afroasiatic family, related to the Semitic languages but not part of them. Amorite appeared in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant c. 2000...
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    Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethiopian Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by...
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    Mari, Syria (category Amorite cities)
    predominantly Amorite but also included Akkadian named people, and although the Amorite language became the dominant tongue, Akkadian remained the language of writing...
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    Amurru (god) (category Amorites)
    the divine personification of the Amorites. In past scholarship it was often assumed that he originated as an Amorite deity, but today it is generally...
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  • the Early Bronze Age. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating...
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  • acceptance by most scholars. Other poorly attested languages include the Semitic Amorite language spoken by Bronze Age tribespeople. Its westernmost dialect...
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    Babylonia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace) for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite...
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  • the extinct Amorite and Ugaritic languages). The East Semitic languages, meanwhile, consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages. Ethiopic and...
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    tablets, then of 17,000 others the following year, revealing a language different from Amorite, which exhibited archaic morphological characteristics present...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
    Northwest Semitic languages and Arabic. Speakers of Northwest Semitic were the Canaanites (including the Phoenicians, Punics, Amorites, Edomites, Moabites...
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  • Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic language)
    Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite and Ugaritic. Aramaic languages are written...
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    Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata spoken by the Maltese people. It is the national language of Malta...
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  • Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad. Shamshi-Adad (Samsi-Addu in his own Amorite language) was an Amorite king, originally ruling the city of Ekallatum, where he had...
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    Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a...
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  • Syriac language (/ˈsɪriæk/ SIH-ree-ak; Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Sūryāyā, Leshono Suryoyo), also known as Aramaic Language, Syriac...
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    Arabic (redirect from Arabic (language))
    [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Semitic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of...
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    Egyptian and the Semitic languages Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite, and Ugaritic. There is no consensus among historical linguists as to precisely...
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    Aleppo (category Amorite cities)
    origin. Some have proposed that Ḥalab means "iron" or "copper" in the Amorite language since the area served as a major source of these metals in antiquity...
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