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gptkbp:instanceOf
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language family
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gptkbp:branch
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gptkb:East_Semitic_languages
gptkb:South_Semitic_languages
gptkb:West_Semitic_languages
Central Semitic languages
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gptkbp:descendedFrom
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gptkb:Modern_Hebrew
gptkb:Amharic
gptkb:Modern_Arabic
Maltese
Tigrinya
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gptkbp:firstAttested
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Akkadian
c. 2500 BCE
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gptkbp:historicalLanguages
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gptkb:Phoenician
gptkb:Ge'ez
Akkadian
Ugaritic
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Semitic languages
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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sem
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gptkbp:linguisticFeature
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emphatic consonants
vowel alternation
triliteral roots
nonconcatenative morphology
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gptkbp:notableLanguage
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gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:Aramaic
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Phoenician
gptkb:Amharic
Akkadian
Maltese
Tigrinya
Ugaritic
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gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers
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over 300 million
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gptkbp:originatedIn
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gptkb:Near_East
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gptkbp:region
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gptkb:Malta
gptkb:Middle_East
gptkb:North_Africa
gptkb:Horn_of_Africa
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Berber_languages
gptkb:Chadic_languages
gptkb:Cushitic_languages
gptkb:Egyptian_language
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gptkbp:status
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several are official languages
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gptkbp:subfamily
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gptkb:Afroasiatic_languages
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gptkbp:usedInReligiousTexts
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gptkb:Hebrew_Bible
gptkb:Quran
gptkb:Talmud
gptkb:Ethiopian_Orthodox_scriptures
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gptkbp:writingSystem
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gptkb:alphabet
cuneiform
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Arab
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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