Semitic studies

Semitic studies or Semitology is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic peoples.

It includes Assyriology, Hebraist and Syriacist studies as well as comparative studies of Semitic languages aiming at the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic.

Literature

• Gotthelf Bergsträsser: Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen, Sprachproben und grammatische Skizzen, Nachdruck, Darmstadt 1993.
• Carl Brockelmann: Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen, Bd. 1-2, 1908/1913.
• David Cohen: Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques.
• Giovanni Garbini, Olivier Durand: Introduzione alle lingue semitiche (1994), ISBN 8839405062 (review: Franz Rosenhal; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996).
• Robert Hetzron: Semitic Languages, London 1997.
• Burkhart Kienast: Historische semitische Sprachwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2001.

See also

• Asian studies
• African studies
• Philology