Description:Gottingen : 1|vandenhoeclt und Ruprecht. 19%. ISBN 3-525-535'5'2 .. 1 The eight Semitic language groups are best reduced to four branches: 1 North. Semitic (l. the Syriant'Euphratcs dialects Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts“. in: Festscirt'ift W. F.Aibright. London. 1961. 133—21