relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family (包括希伯来语、阿拉伯语和亚兰语及腓尼基语和阿卡德语等古代语言的)闪语族的
of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic 闪语族人(尤指希伯来、阿拉伯人)的