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Hamito-Semitic

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Ham·i·to-Se·mit·ic  (hm-t-s-mtk)
n.
Afro-Asiatic. No longer in technical use.


Hamito-Semitic
n
(Linguistics / Languages) a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
adj
(Linguistics / Languages) denoting or belonging to this family of languages
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Noun1.Hamito-Semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and AfricaHamito-Semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Chadic, Chadic language, Chad - a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Semitic - a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
Hamitic, Hamitic language - a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
Egyptian - the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC
Berber - a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
Cushitic - a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
Omotic - a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages


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32 Hardcover Mouton grammar library; 35 PJ2381 Tamashek is a division of Tuareg, the southern branch of Berber, which is part of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic family of languages.
AFRO-ASIATIC: Also known as the Hamito-Semitic group, this is found across the northern half of Africa and southwest Asia.
 
 
 
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