Hamitic language


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Noun1.Hamitic language - a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
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Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Hamito-Semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
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This then gave rise to the creation of a linguistic group called the family of Hamitic languages. Members of this racial group comprise blonde, blue-eyed Berbers of North Africa and dark-skinned woolly-haired Ethiopians in the Horn of Africa.
Tracing the deeper roots of the Rwandan genocide ... how the Hamite Hypothesis played a role

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