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Definitions for hamito-semitic
ˈhæm ɪ toʊ səˈmɪt ɪkhami·to-semitic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semiticnoun

    a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa

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  1. Hamito-Semiticnoun

    Afro-Asiatic

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  1. hamito-semitic

    The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic subregions of Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel. With the exception of its Semitic branch, all branches of the Afroasiatic family are exclusively native to the African continent. Afroasiatic languages have over 500 million native speakers, which is the fourth-largest number of native speakers of any language family (after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo). The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and Omotic. The most widely spoken modern Afroasiatic language or dialect continuum by far is Arabic, a de facto group of distinct language varieties within the Semitic branch. The languages that evolved from Proto-Arabic have around 313 million native speakers, concentrated primarily in the Middle East and North Africa.In addition to the languages spoken today, Afroasiatic includes many ancient languages, such as Egyptian, which forms a distinct branch of the family; and within the Semitic family, Akkadian, Hebrew, Phoenician, other Canaanite languages, Amorite, Ugaritic and Aramaic. While there is no consensus among historical linguists concerning the original homeland of the Afroasiatic family or the period when the parent language (i.e. Proto-Afroasiatic) was spoken, most agree that it was located within a region of Northeast Africa. Proposed specific locations include the Horn of Africa, Egypt, the eastern Sahara, and the Levant.

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  1. hamito-semitic

    Hamito-Semitic is an outdated term previously used in linguistic categorization to describe a large group of languages predominantly spoken in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia. This term has been largely replaced by "Afro-Asiatic" in modern linguistic studies. The Afro-Asiatic family includes major language groups such as Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, Chadic, and Egyptian, among others.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hamito-semitic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hamito-semitic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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