ARAB736 | ANCIENT SEMITIC LANGUAGES

Historical review of Semitic nations, naming and native land, Semitic migrations, Semitic demographic distribution, role of Semitic people in the development of orthography, origin of old Semitic orthography its geographic and time frames, review of types of Semitic orthography: stages, tools, material, fonts, Semitic alphabets, their development, branches, types and relations among each other. Presenting of old southern and northern Arabic orthographic models and relation with Semitic orthography. Reading of ancient manuscripts and their explanation Acadian, Canaanite, Aramaic and Arabic and using them as a historic reference to induce historic, political, religious and economic information