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Semito-Hamitic

British  
/ ˈsɛmɪtəʊhæˈmɪtɪk /

noun

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

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adjective

  1. denoting or belonging to this family of languages

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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.

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