Semitic linguistics

thumb|Ezana stone, written in Geʽez explaining his conquests and accomplishments Geez ( or ; , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now known as Ethiopia and Eritrea.

hypothetical proto-language ancestral to the historical Semitic languages of the Middle East

Nunation (, ''), in some Semitic languages such as Arabic, is the addition of one of three diacritics (cf. ḥarakāt) to a noun or adjective in order to indicate that the word ends in a sequence of a vowel and an alveolar nasal. Thus, the presence of a consonant is exceptionally expressed without the addition of the corresponding letter (which otherwise normally would have been nūn''). The sequences marked by the diacritics represent case endings (nominative, accusative and genitive). The noun phrase is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness, identifiable in speech.

representation of vowels as independent letters where they would otherwise be indicated by optional diacritics in a given orthography

abstract consonant-only roots which are the traditional basis for morphological derivation in the Semitic languages and some other Afroasiatic (Hamitic) languages

series of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages, which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents; may be realized as uvularized or pharyngealized, velarized, ejective, or plain voiced or voiceless

morphological form of a noun modified directly by another noun

field of academic study

irregular plural forms in Semitic and other Afroasiatic languages, or those which loan heavily from them

degree of comparison for adjectives and adverbs

Mimation (, ') is the phenomenon of a suffixed '  (the letter mem in many Semitic abjads) which occurs in some Semitic languages.