Hamito-semitic (Noun)
Meaning
A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Hamito-Semitic languages are a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
- The Berber languages, spoken in the Mediterranean coastal region of North Africa, are an important subgroup of the Hamito-Semitic language family.
- Most of the languages spoken in the Middle East, including Arabic and Hebrew, belong to the Hamito-Semitic language family.
- In addition to the Semitic languages of the Middle East, Hamito-Semitic also includes several languages of East and North Africa, such as Hausa and Amharic.
- Maltese is one of the few remaining Semitic languages spoken in Europe, where it has developed from the Maltese dialect of the Hamito-Semitic language family that was brought to the island by the Phoenicians.