Semitic is a term that describes any ethnic, cultural or racial group that speaks Semitic languages. Historians in this era used to call the peoples who communicated in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and who communicated in Phoenician, Assyrian, and Aramaic, “Semitic peoples,”. In reference to Shem, son of Noah, because these nations were mentioned in the Torah as being his descendants, and they called their language the Semitic languages. #semitic #arabic #hebrew #syriac #phoenician #assyrian #aramaic