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Seˌmito-Haˈmitic, a. and n.
= Hamito-Semitic a. and n. Also Semitic-Hamitic a. and n.
1879E. S. Roberts tr. D. Pezzi's Aryan Philol. i. i. 46 Hence the Southern and Central African dialects, the Erythræan (Semito-Hamitic) and the Aryan. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 894 The development of a grammatical gender, this principal characteristic of Semito-Hamitic, in Bari and Masai, may be rather accidental than borrowed. 1928Language IV. 129 If there is a Semitic-Hamitic language-group, then not primitive Semitic, but primitive Semitic-Hamitic must be correlated with primitive Indo-European. 1949W. F. Albright Archaeol. Palestine iii. 61 Since very similar human skeletons have been found in the Badarian of Egypt as well as in late chalcolithic Gezer and Byblus, it seems to follow that these folk belonged to the ancestral Semito-Hamitic stock. 1964Jrnl. Semitic Studies IX. 137 The Semito-Hamitic family, for which the very apt term Erythraic has been recently proposed by A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 589/2 Also known as the Semito-Hamitic, Erythraean, Afro-Asiatic, and Afrasian language group, it [sc. Hamito-Semitic] is the main language family of northern Africa. |