The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semitic \Sem*it"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.]
Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of
Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead,
namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian,
Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic).
--Encyc. Brit.
Usage examples of "semitic language".
It must be borne in mind that the Semitic conquerors of the Sumerians, while they adopted the Sumerian cuneiform script, adapted it to express a Semitic language (Akkadian) totally unlike Sumerian.
Evidence for the Minoan Language) opened up a new field of study by showing that an early Minoan script, called Linear A, represented a Semitic language.
Yes, Donald, Arabic too is a Semitic language and is similarly vowel-shy.
In the Semitic language of Babylonia, the name of the vegetation god became Tammuz.
O'Rourke had a fair grasp on that ancient Semitic language as well, from the year he'd spent in Babylonia.
The markings on the cylinder were in Hebrew, and he didn't know that other Semitic language well, and he didn't understand the significance of these markings.