>>>>>Sorry to tell you, but even Yiddish is not a semitic language. Maltese is! :)
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>>>>What about ladino? <g>
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>>>Also not a semitic language. Sorry :)
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>>This prettyr much leaves Hebrew, Arabic and Arameic. Do you know more?
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>You mentioned the three main semitic languages. My book doesn't mention others, except Maltese, because it is the only European one.

I have a sneaking suspicion that there is Hebrew in the family mix somewhere, but until I check with my mother, I may just be babbling incoherently on a subject about which I know nothing. I'll be back with better information probably tomorrow (maybe tonight).