hamito-semitic
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1. a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa (noun.communication)
hypernym | : | natural language, tongue, |
definition | : | a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | chad, chadic, chadic language, |
definition | : | a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | semitic, |
definition | : | a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | hamitic, hamitic language, |
definition | : | a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | egyptian, |
definition | : | the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | berber, |
definition | : | a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | cushitic, |
definition | : | a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | omotic, |
definition | : | a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages (noun.communication) |
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