在所有的语言家族中，闪语的书面语历史最长。

Of all language families, Semitic languages have the longest written lifespan.

youdao

所以他的真名叫犹太或犹大，低土马以及，多马是其昵称，一个为希腊语，一个为闪语或亚兰语。

His real name is Judah or Judas and Didymus, and Thomas are his nicknames, one Greek and one Semitic or Aramaic.

youdao

低土马就是希腊语的“双生子“,“多马“来源于闪语，希伯来语或亚兰语，或者叙利亚语，这三种都是很相似的语言，“多马“在这些语言中也有“双生“的意思。

Didymus is the Greek word for "twin" and Thomas is from a Semitic word,either Hebrew or Aramaic, or Syriac,which are all three similar languages, "Thomas" would look like in "twin" in those.

youdao

I forget the exact number of the ones in the Semitic alphabet, but we're talking about roughly twenty-five.

我忘了闪米特语中有多少字母,粗略说来大概有二十五个

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If you read a well, a good example of that kind of Semitic script is Hebrew.

如果你读的好,一个很好的关于闪米特语的例子就是希伯来语

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The letters, the design of the writing comes, in fact, from Asia, probably from--almost certainly from Phoenicia, the land that is now called Lebanon and the language that was for that script was Semitic language.

事实上,材料中的字母和符号都来自,亚洲,很可能来自--应该能肯定是,来自腓尼基,就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方,书稿的语言用的是闪米特语

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