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Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages, a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia, North and East Africa, and Malta.
Semitic may also refer to:
People
- Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
- Semitic people, an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group who speak or spoke the Semitic languages