Ethnicity and race Semitic people

this t , o map, first printed version of isidore of seville s etymologiae, identifies 3 known continents populated descendants of sem (shem), iafeth (japheth) , cham (ham).

in racialist classifications of carleton s. coon, semitic peoples considered members of caucasian race, not dissimilar in appearance neighbouring indo-european, northwest caucasian, berber , kartvelian-speaking peoples of region. language studies interwoven cultural studies, term came describe religions (ancient semitic , abrahamic) , semitic-speaking ethnicities history of these varied cultures associated close geographic , linguistic distribution.

some recent genetic studies have found (by analysis of dna of semitic-speaking peoples) have common ancestry. although no significant common mitochondrial results have been found, y-chromosomal links between semitic-speaking peoples of middle east arabs, jews, mandaeans, samaritans, , assyrians have shown links, despite differences contributed other groups (see y-chromosomal aaron).

a dna study of jews , palestinian arabs (including bedouins) found these more closely related each other people of arabian peninsula, ethiopian semitic-speaking people (amharas, tigrayans, harari , tigre people), , north african arabs.

genetic studies indicate modern jews (ashkenazi, sephardic , mizrahi specifically), levantine arabs, assyrians, samaritans, maronites, druze, mandaeans, , mhallami, have ancient indigenous common near eastern heritage can genetically mapped ancient fertile crescent, display genetic profiles distinct 1 another, indicating different histories of these peoples.