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Cushitic
or ܲ··
[ kuh-shit-ik ]
noun
- a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
adjective
- of or relating to Cushitic.
Cushitic
/ ʊˈʃɪɪ /
noun
- a group of languages of Somalia, Ethiopia, NE Kenya, and adjacent regions: a subfamily within the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
adjective
- denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages
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Only the fine, curly Cushitic hair on the heads of the majority of people in the Horn of Africa was seen as up to standard.
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The other Cushitic tongues exhibit increasing agglutinative tendencies the farther we go south, although single archaisms are found even in Somali.
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Cushitic family; its exact place in this family remains to be determined.
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It represents a third independent branch, or rather a second one, Libyan and Cushitic forming one division of Hamitic.
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Ancient Egyptian, as we have seen, does not form the connecting link between Libyan and Cushitic which its geographical position would lead us to expect.
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