Ham·i·to-Se·mit·ic (h m  -t -s -mt k)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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| Noun | 1. | Hamito-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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