Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Afro-Asiatic. No longer in technical use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the peoples speaking Hamitic and Semitic languages which are considered members of one linguistic stock.
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- proper noun obsolete, linguistics
Afro-Asiatic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As Mozeson puts it, The third son of Noah, Ham, is behind the generic term for African languages, and white gentiles in the linguistic community have no trouble with the evidence of a related Hamito-Semitic language family.
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As Mozeson puts it, The third son of Noah, Ham, is behind the generic term for African languages, and white gentiles in the linguistic community have no trouble with the evidence of a related Hamito-Semitic language family.
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The Moors however were all Caucasian peoples - the first ones were Hamito-Semitic Arabs and Berbers; many of the latter-day ones were of Turkic, Iranian and Circassian stock The Turks, in fact, eventually took over the whole Arab Empire.
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[Persian is an Indo-European language, Arabic a Hamito-Semitic language.
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