what it means the word Semitic?.who are the Semitic people?
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Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic languages, the Semitic languages, as well as their speakers' corresponding cultures, and ethnicities. Although there is much debate about the scope of the word's "racial" use in the context of population genetics and history, as a linguistic term the language family is well-defined to include ancient and modern versions of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Syriac, Tigrinya, etc.
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Basic answer  -- the languages have many similarities for TWO reaons --   an ancient COMMON ancestry, and much CONTACT through the millennia.\n\nThe three languages you listed -- Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic-- all go back to one ancient "root" language we might call "Common Semitic".  This is the starting place for understanding why a speaker of one language may understand, or at least easily learn, another of the languages.  It's a bit like French, Italian and Spanish speakers whose languages all go back to Latin.\n\nNow much of the ancient historical relationship amongst the different Semitic languages is obscure, and some of it is highly debated, since that 'language history' has to be reconstructed based on clues left in the languages (or in written records of earlier forms of the languages).     The "family tree" model also has some significant weaknesses (see below), but is still useful for drawing a rough picture.\n\nHere's a sketch:\n\n1) HEBREW and Aramaic are fairly closely related, coming from two 'subbranches' of part of the large tree of Semitic.  "Aramaic" actually covers a diversity of dialects.    Hebrew is a "Canaanite" language (the last remaining), and was spoken by the 'people of Israel' up to the time of the Babylonian Captivity in the 6th century B.C..   (The precise beginnings of Hebrew are murky.)\n\nThese two subbranches are the main representatives of what are usually called the "Northwest Semitic languages", though in more recent systems they may also be called "North Central Semitic" languages.\n\n2) ARAMAIC - Historically we know that various types of Aramaic were spoken in Syria (a region called "Aram" in the first millennium)-- in the lands between the Mediterranean coast and Mesopotamia.   These lands and peoples came under the control of the Assyrians ("Neo-Assyrian Empire"), then the Babylonians ("Neo-Babylonian Empre" of Nebuchadnezzar, etc), and later the (non-Semitic) Persians.   But rather than these peoples adopting the language of their Mesopotamian conquerors (esp. the "Neo-Assyrian" and "Neo-Babylonian" dialects of the Eastern Semitic language scholars call "Akkadian"),  Aramaic itself became the lingua franca of these empires, and eventually many of the legal documents were written in Aramaic.  (Persia continued this practice.)  [Note that "Neo-Babylonian" is NOT Aramaic, but the dialect of Akkadian.]\n\nLeading members of the Hebrew-speaking peoples of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were carried into exile by the Assyrians & Babylonians.  When their descendants returned they brought the Aramaic language back with them, though they continued to use Hebrew for religious purposes.  (Because these returnees were chiefly from the former Kingdom of Judah, they were called "Judahites", from which we get the word "Jews" ["Juedisch" /"Yiddish" in German]. )\n\nAramaic dialects of various sorts continued to dominate the region for many centuries (though Greek was also used for various purposes after the rise of the Greek Empire and esp its Mesopotamain offshoot, the Seleucids).  In the early centuries of the church the later Aramaic dialect/language known as Syriac  was dominant (hence one of the earliest translations of the New Testament is the Syriac).\n\n3) Another Semitic language, ARABIC, swept across the region and displaced most of the Aramaic dialects with the rise of Islam and Arab conquest (though a few small pockets preserved Aramaic, and a handful of "Neo-Aramaic" dialects survive to this day).   But what exactly is the relationship of this Semitic language, esp. to Aramaic?\n\nThe "family tree" explanation has shifted a bit over the years.  Arabic used to be classified with "Southern Semitic" languages (including Southern Arabian and, more dis
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language has evolved over a long period of time. nouns were probably the first words to be used. as tribes mingled and formed races they took/developed their words and passed them on to their children.\n \nor, if you're asking in a biblical context {sigh} then it was supposed to be adam
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It's not because it was never meant as a derogatory term, it simply means 'one who is not of the Jewish faith'.  It's no more racist than saying someone is not Jewish, or saying that someone is 'Christian'.
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lieberal?\n\nLiberal.\n\nAnd ALL Jewish people aren't anything.  Jewish people are individuals.  If you want to know about all of them, ask ALL of them and don't ask us for broad generalizations.
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Jewish is a religion, but Jewish is also a race of people. Jewish is the newer word for Hebrew. Jesus is Hebrew/Jewish
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Tribes of Israel = 12\nJudah is only one of the tribes.\n"Jewish" could simply be one whose religion is Judaism.
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The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.*  They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols.  It was quickly adopted by their neighbors and relatives to the east and north, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Phoenicians.  The Phoenicians spread their alphabet to other people of the Near East and Asia Minor, as well as to the Arabs, the Greeks, and the Etruscans, and as far west as present day Spain.  The letters and names on the left are the ones used by the Phoenicians.  \n\nMore information:
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yes, you are correct in this description of the semitic peoples of Jesus time, much interbreeding has changed this look and the typical Jew of today has lost most of these characteristics.
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Arabic is a language from the Semitic family.\nTradition wants that the Arab alphabeth was revealed to Ibrahim's (Abraham's) son Ismail after he had settled with his mother Hajar (Agar) in the valley of Bakkah, where he would have built with his father Ibrahim the Holy Ka'ba.\n\nWhen some people from the Arabic peninsula joined Hajar and Ismail, they gave birth to the family of the Quraysh, among whom the Prophet Muhammad was born, descending directly from Ismail.\nThe Arab language developed in beauty before the Prophet's birth: poetry was considered with the highest honor in the "Arabia Felix"; there were annual competitions among poets and they were taken in great consideration in their society.\n\nThe Coranic revelation was something new in this scenery: the Prophet was illiterate (we say he was "intellectually virgin") but the Coranic verses smote the same poets for their beauty, gramatical perfection and harmony.\nAfter the Revelation, the arabic language and grammar was redefined basing on the Holy Qur'an.\n\nThis is what is now called "classical Arabic".\nClassical Arabic is no more in use in the Arab world, aside from achademic study: in fact most of the Arab people use many different dialects, which are far different from the Coranic Arab, and far different one from the other, except for the alphabeth they use and the general gramatical structure.\nOn the other side, as Muslims in the world are for the 83% non-Arab, they generally only use this language to recite the Coranic verses in their prayers, while they use their national language for every other task.
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anthropologist describe three distinct races...Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid..when discussing the origin of man.   Is that what you are asking?
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EARLY HISTORY\n\nHebrew is an Afro-Asiatic language. This language family is generally thought by linguists to have originated somewhere in northeastern Africa, and began to diverge around the 8th millennium BCE, although there is much debate about the exact date and place. (The theory is espoused by most archeologists and linguists, but at odds with traditional reading of the Torah.) One branch of this family, Semitic, eventually reached the Middle East; it gradually differentiated into a variety of related languages.\n\nBy the end of the 3rd millennium BCE the ancestral languages of Aramaic, Ugaritic, and other various Canaanite languages were spoken in the Levant alongside the influential dialects of Ebla and Akkad. As the Hebrew founders from northern Haran filtered south into and came under the influence of the Levant, like many sojourners into Canaan including the Philistines, they adopted Canaanite dialects. The first written evidence of distinctive Hebrew, the Gezer calendar, dates back to the 10th century BCE, the traditional time of the reign of David and Solomon. It presents a list of seasons and related agricultural activities. The Gezer calendar (named after the city in whose proximity it was found) is written in an old Semitic script, akin to the Phoenician one that through the Greeks and Etruscans later became the Roman script. The Gezer calendar is written without any vowels, and it does not use consonants to imply vowels even in the places where more modern spelling requires it .
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It's not an English word.\n\nElf,  Aleph - can't think of anything else
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JEWISH - OF OR RELATING TO JEWS, / OF JUDAISM\nJUDAISM - THE RELIGION OF THE JEWS, /  THE JEWS COLLECTIVELY. \nTHE ABOVE DEFINITIONS ARE FROM THE ILLUSTRATED OXFORD DICTIONARY.\n\nWhen Moses was on the Mount to get the law there is no mention of Judaism. In fact there is no translation that metions this religion, not even once. Therefore it was created by man not by the most high. Which should tell you that any form of Judaism is a transgression against Gods Law. One of the books of Judaism is the Talmud or Oral law again there is no metion of this. They say Jesus taught a oral law, untrue. He may have said the law oral, but not a oral law mention. The Talmud was created sometime in the 2nd - 5th century C.E. (common Era)by rabbi's.
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Judaism is a religion, not a race.\n\nHowever, due to the persecution that has persisted since the time of slavery in Egypt, Jews tend to keep a fairly close community, so many physical traits have become prominent, making people think of them as a separate "race."
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Judaism. They have been fighting to stay alive for 4,000 years. People are always trying to mess them up.
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They are the 'chosen people.' This means that Jews are chosen for the responsibility of obeying the 613 commandments, not for priviledges. Every other human is seen as righteous in the eyes of the Jews, as long as they obey the Noahide Laws (which are much fewer than 613!)\nJews are 'chosen people' not because they are special in any other way apart from the fact they are (Orthodox Jews anyway) descendants of Abraham, and are a race as well as a religion.