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A group of North African languages related to Semitic
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hamitic
Word definitions for hamitic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
language group that included ancient Egyptian, Berber, Galla, etc.; 1842, from Ham , second son of Noah (Gen. ix:18-19).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hamitic (from the biblical Ham ) is a historical term in ethnology and linguistics for a division of the Caucasian race and the group of related languages these populations spoke. "Hamitic" was applied to the non- Semitic languages in the Afroasiatic family, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hamitic \Ham*it"ic\ (h[a^]m*[i^]t"[i^]k), a. Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic languages , the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Som[^a]li Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. --Keith Johnston.
Usage examples of hamitic.
So that not only the Mohammedan and Christian but the Buddhistic religion seem to be derived from branches of the Hamitic or red stock.
Asiatic Hamites, and the Semitic adoption of the Hamitic gods and religious system.
Science of writing, as it appears to have been pursued in Chaldea, and as we can actually trace its progress in Egypt, that we can hardly hesitate to assign the original invention to a period before the Hamitic race had broken up and divided.
So great is the analogy between the first principles of the Science of writing, as it appears to have been pursued in Chaldea, and as we can actually trace its progress in Egypt, that we can hardly hesitate to assign the original invention to a period before the Hamitic race had broken up and divided.