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Nilo-Hamitic, a.|ˌnaɪləʊhæˈmɪtɪk|
Also Niloto-Hamitic, Nilohamitic.
[f. Nilo- + Hamitic a.]
a. Used (originally by German philologists) to designate the groups of languages spoken by East African peoples of mixed Negro and Hamitic descent.
b. Of, pertaining to, or designating any one or all of the peoples who speak a language belonging to this group.
1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Afr. I. iv. 54 Krapf..became aware of the existence of two distinct Groups of Languages on the East Coast, about the line of the Equator, and called them Nilo-Hamitic, or Nilotic and Nigro-Hamitic or Nigritic respectively. 1920G. W. Murray in Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. L. 328 The Hamito-Semitic influence on these first three languages is so strong that we may certainly call them Niloto-Hamitic with Westermann. 1938W. M. Hailey Afr. Survey iii. 77 The Nilotic..comprises tongues spoken in the Upper Nile region as far south as Lake Victoria. Two main branches are distinguished, Nilo-Sudanic..and Nilo-Hamitic. 1955J. H. Greenberg Studies in African Linguistic Classification 66 The term Nilo-Hamitic has been used by different writers with widely varying meanings. 1955P. H. Gulliver Family Herds i. 1 In East Africa..it so happens that many of the pastoral peoples are of the Nilo-Hamitic strain, which tends to give them a more striking physique than their Bantu neighbours. 1957C. G. Seligman Races of Africa (ed. 3) vii. 161 Their kinship is rather with the Nilo-Hamitic tribes of East Africa. 1967M. J. Coe Ecol. Alpine Zone Mt. Kenya 1 For centuries the peak of Mount Kenya has held a magical and religious significance for the Bantu and Nilohamitic peoples. |