"Semitistics" meaning in English

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          "text": "When it is completed, this work will gain for this language the place that is due to it not only in Aramaistics but also in Semitistics.",
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          "text": "For the linguist, on the contrary, the remains of the Neo-Aramaic dialects are extremely valuable, for linguistics in general and, especially, for Comparative Semitistics (and, through it, for Afro-Asiatic studies).",
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          "text": "It is common in Semitistics to use a certain verb in a Semitic language as a model for describing different verb forms, for instance iprus ‘to cut’ (literally ‘he cut’) in Akkadian and faʕala ‘to do’ in Arabic (literally ‘he did’, the sound of ʕ is a voiced, laryngeal fricative), although here we, for the sake of convenience, mainly use one and the same verb.",
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