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CUSHITIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cushitic mean? 

CUSHITIC (noun)
  The noun CUSHITIC has 1 sense:

1. a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regionsplay

  Familiarity information: CUSHITIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CUSHITIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Cushitic" is a kind of...):

Afrasian; Afrasian language; Afro-Asiatic; Afroasiatic; Afroasiatic language; Hamito-Semitic (a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cushitic"):

Somali (the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali)


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