>>>>>>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.
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>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).

Something else I remember my mother talking about is that supposedly all the men in her family are 'Kohenim'. I'm not fully conversant with all of it, but it has something to do with being a descendant of the line of Aaron (Moses' brother). Unlike being Jewish, it descends through the male parent rather than the female. Therefore, clearly I am not one - which is probably a good thing since I don't really know what it's all about and I'd probably be an embarrassment to the line.