Hamitic

Speech parts

1. Hamitic - Noun

2. Hamitic - Adjective

3. Hamitic - Proper noun

Meaning

a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic

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However, the Hamitic peoples themselves were often deemed to have failed as rulers, which was usually ascribed to interbreeding with Negroes. Source: Internet

Marcel Cohen (1924) rejected the idea of a distinct Hamitic subgroup and included Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary. Source: Internet

He regarded it as a fourth subrace of the Caucasian race, along with the Aryan, Semitic, and Hamitic subraces. Source: Internet

Populations of Hamitic origin form the majorities in the Arab states of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. Source: Internet

The Germans believed the Tutsi ruling class was a superior racial type who, because of their apparent " Hamitic " origins on the Horn of Africa, were more "European" than the Hutu. Source: Internet

These classifications relied in part on non-linguistic anthropological and racial arguments that have largely been discredited (see Hamitic hypothesis ). Source: Internet

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