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Hamitic definition

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Of or relating to the Hamites or their languages or cultures. No longer in technical use.
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A presumed language family thought to include Egyptian and the Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic languages. No longer in technical use.
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An obsolete grouping within the Afroasiatic language family, including the Berber, Cushitic, and Egyptian languages.
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Designating or of the Hamites or Hamitic.
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Of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.
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A group of languages spoken in Egypt and neighbouring countries.
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Hamitic Sentence Examples

  • Some authorities hold that Egyptian civilization came from Babylonia, and that the so-called Hamitic languages are older and less specialized members of the Semitic family.

  • The Somali belong to the Eastern (Ethiopic) Hamitic family of tribes, of which the other chief members are the neighbouring Galla and Afar, the Abyssinian Agau and the Beja tribes between the Nubian Nile and the Red Sea.

  • Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria about 930, included "Nubi" among the six kinds of writing which he mentions as current among the Hamitic peoples, and "Nubi" also appears among a list of six writings mentioned in an ancient manuscript now in the Berlin Museum.

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