Haˈmito-Seˈmitic, a.
Designating the language family including Hamitic and Semitic languages. Also as n. Also Haˈmitic-Seˈmitic a. and n.
| 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., Hamito-Semitic, relating to the peoples speaking Hamitic and Semitic languages which are considered members of one linguistic stock. 1936 Science & Society I. 25 He records similarities..between pronouns in Hamitic-Semitic. 1939 L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 357 Second in importance only to the Indo-European linguistic family comes the Hamito-Semitic group. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Ling. viii. 307 The Hamito-semitic family, represented by classical Arabic and the Arabic languages and dialects of the Middle East and North African coast. |