Semito-Hamitic

/ ˈsɛmɪtəʊhæˈmɪtɪk /

noun

1. a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages See Afro-Asiatic

adjective

1. denoting or belonging to this family of languages

Example Sentences

The development of a grammatical gender, this principal characteristic of Semito-Hamitic, in Bari and Masai, may be rather accidental than borrowed; certainly, the same phenomenon in Hottentot does not justify the attempt often made to classify this with Hamitic.

From Project Gutenberg