Definition of Hamitic language

1. Noun. A group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamitic Language

Hamilton-Stewart method
Hamiltonian
Hamiltonian cycle
Hamiltonian cycles
Hamiltonian graph
Hamiltonian path
Hamiltonian paths
Hamiltonians
Hamiltonism
Hamiltons
Haminoea
Hamish
Hamite
Hamites
Hamitic
Hamitic language
Hamito-Semitic
Hamlet
Hamm
Hamman's disease
Hamman's murmur
Hamman's sign
Hamman's syndrome
Hammarskjold
Hammarsten's reagent
Hammer
Hammers
Hammerschlag's method
Hammerstein
Hammett

Literary usage of Hamitic language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... also retain their original hamitic language, the so-called ... district between the Mareb and the Upper Baraka have also adopted this hamitic language, ..."

2. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... whose territory extends along the east side of the Baraka valley, also retain their original hamitic language, the so-called ..."

3. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1891)
"Doubts have been expressed, whether it really is a hamitic language, as it is entirely devoid of Grammatical Gender : the male and female cat, the bride and ..."

4. The Builders of Babel by Dominick M'Causland (1874)
"This establishes the fact of the existence of a Chaldaean or hamitic language distinct from the Semitic, and also that it had become a dead language among ..."

5. The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1903)
"Historically, however, this cannot be proved, but it is certain that if the Canaanites spoke a hamitic language, they soon changed it for the speech which ..."

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