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Definition of Hamitic language
1. Noun. A group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic.
Generic synonyms: Afrasian, Afrasian Language, Afro-asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic Language, Hamito-semitic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamitic Language
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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