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Hamitic languages

noun plural

Definition of HAMITIC LANGUAGES

:  any of various groupings of non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages (as Berber, Egyptian, and Cushitic) that were formerly thought to make up a single branch of the Afro-Asiatic family
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First Known Use of HAMITIC LANGUAGES

circa 1890

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