found: Work cat.: 2001040567: Pentiuc, E. West Semitic vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar, 2001.
found: Encyc. Judaica:v. 14, col. 1153 ("... before 2000 B.C.E., West Semitic divided into a northern and a southern branch.")
found: Encyclopedia of language and languages, 1994:v. 7, p. 3834.
found: International encyclopedia of linguistics, 1992:v. 3, p. 413.
found: LC database, July 19, 2001.
found: New Catholic encyc.(East Semitic (Akkadian) and West Semitic (all the other Semitic languages))
notfound: Britannica Micro.;Britannica Macro.
