Definition of Hamito-Semitic in English:
Hamito-Semitic
adjectiveˌhamɪtəʊsɪˈmɪtɪkˌhaməˌtōsəˈmidik
former term for Afro-Asiatic
Example sentencesExamples
- Irish has as many features in common with non-Indo-European languages, especially with Hamito-Semitic languages, as with other Indo-European languages.
- Thus Ethiopia had to be the original homeland of all Hamito-Semitic languages.
- It is a member of the Chad group of languages frequently assigned to the Hamitic sub-family of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages.
- Somali is one of the Cushitic languages, which form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) family.
- Even older is the thesis that Insular Celtic in its turn has been structurally influenced in its historical development by Hamito-Semitic substrata.
Definition of Hamito-Semitic in US English:
Hamito-Semitic
adjectiveˌhaməˌtōsəˈmidik
former term for Afro-Asiatic
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus Ethiopia had to be the original homeland of all Hamito-Semitic languages.
- Somali is one of the Cushitic languages, which form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) family.
- Even older is the thesis that Insular Celtic in its turn has been structurally influenced in its historical development by Hamito-Semitic substrata.
- Irish has as many features in common with non-Indo-European languages, especially with Hamito-Semitic languages, as with other Indo-European languages.
- It is a member of the Chad group of languages frequently assigned to the Hamitic sub-family of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages.