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Definition of Cushitic
1. Noun. A group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions.
Specialized synonyms: Somali
Definition of Cushitic
1. Adjective. pertaining to the Cushites ¹
2. Proper noun. a sub-family of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cushitic
Literary usage of Cushitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The early isolated High cushitic tongues (originally branched off from a stock
... The cushitic or Ethiopian Family.—The nearest relative of Libyan is not ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The cushitic or Ethiopian Family.—The nearest relative of Libyan is not ...
The other cushitic tongue exhibit increasing agglutinative tendencies the ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... immigration supervened on the original Hamitic population, the result being
a combination of cushitic civilization with a ..."
4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... and a cushitic one in Babylon. The probability of this being ethnically (as
opposed to geographically) true depends partly on the age assigned to ..."
5. The Philosophy of History by Augustus Schade, Rudolf Rocholl (1899)
"This Is black and distinctly shows the cushitic features, Whilst Assyrian
antiquities are always of the Semitic type, the Baby- Babylonien antiquities pian— ..."
6. Kenya by Eva Ambros (1999)
"The cushitic groups forced their way south from their homelands on the So- malian
... The cushitic language group is clearly divided into two subgroups. ..."
7. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"“This,” he continues, “indicates that they all had the compass from the same
source, “ which source he assumes to be cushitic, but may as easily be Chinese ..."
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