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HAMITIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hamitic mean?
• HAMITIC (noun)
The noun HAMITIC has 1 sense:
1. a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
Familiarity information: HAMITIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hamitic; Hamitic language
Hypernyms ("Hamitic" 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)
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