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Definition of Cushitic in English: Cushiticadjectivekʊˈʃɪtɪkko͝oSHˈitik Relating to or denoting a group of East African languages of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken mainly in Ethiopia and Somalia, including Somali and Oromo. 库希特语族（亚非语系东非语群，主要在埃塞俄比亚和索马里使用，包括索马里语和奥罗莫语） Example sentencesExamples - The major language groups native to the region include Bantu in the west and along the coast, Nilotic near Lake Victoria, and Cushitic in the north.
- For several thousand years thereafter, migrations of Nilotic, Cushitic, and Semitic-speaking people entered Eritrea, and were among the first in Africa to grow crops and domesticate livestock.
- The nine languages can be grouped into three major language families: the Nilotic, the Cushitic, and the Afro-Semitic.
- The vast majority of the languages spoken in the country can be classified within three families of the Afro-Asiatic super language family: the Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic.
- Arabic is a branch of the Semitic languages, which in turn belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family together with Berber, Ancient Egyptian, Chadic, and Cushitic.
nounkʊˈʃɪtɪkko͝oSHˈitik mass nounThe Cushitic group of languages. Example sentencesExamples - The main indigenous languages are Afar and Issa-Somali, both of which belong to the Cushitic language group.
- In the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Somali is an Eastern Cushitic language.
- These include Khoisan, or ‘click ‘speaking hunter-gatherers, Nilotic-speaking pastoralists (such as the Maasai), Cushitic speakers, and Bantu speakers; the latter predominate in terms of population size.’
- The Cushitic family of languages are spoken by the Oromo peoples, the largest group in the central regions of Ethiopia.
- Lastly, the unequal representation of Cushitic or Nilotic artists and their cultures cannot be dismissed.
- Bilen is part of a larger Cushitic language subfamily called Agau.
- In a narrow strip on the western border of Ethiopia live the only people in the country who speak neither Semitic nor Cushitic languages.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Cush + -itic. Rhymesanalytic, anchoritic, anthracitic, arthritic, bauxitic, calcitic, catalytic, critic, cryptanalytic, dendritic, diacritic, dioritic, dolomitic, enclitic, eremitic, hermitic, lignitic, mephitic, paralytic, parasitic, psychoanalytic, pyritic, Sanskritic, saprophytic, Semitic, sybaritic, syenitic, syphilitic, troglodytic Definition of Cushitic in US English: Cushiticadjectiveko͝oSHˈitik Relating to or denoting a group of East African languages of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken mainly in Ethiopia and Somalia, including Somali and Oromo. 库希特语族（亚非语系东非语群，主要在埃塞俄比亚和索马里使用，包括索马里语和奥罗莫语） Example sentencesExamples - The vast majority of the languages spoken in the country can be classified within three families of the Afro-Asiatic super language family: the Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic.
- The major language groups native to the region include Bantu in the west and along the coast, Nilotic near Lake Victoria, and Cushitic in the north.
- The nine languages can be grouped into three major language families: the Nilotic, the Cushitic, and the Afro-Semitic.
- Arabic is a branch of the Semitic languages, which in turn belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family together with Berber, Ancient Egyptian, Chadic, and Cushitic.
- For several thousand years thereafter, migrations of Nilotic, Cushitic, and Semitic-speaking people entered Eritrea, and were among the first in Africa to grow crops and domesticate livestock.
nounko͝oSHˈitik The Cushitic group of languages. Example sentencesExamples - The Cushitic family of languages are spoken by the Oromo peoples, the largest group in the central regions of Ethiopia.
- The main indigenous languages are Afar and Issa-Somali, both of which belong to the Cushitic language group.
- Lastly, the unequal representation of Cushitic or Nilotic artists and their cultures cannot be dismissed.
- These include Khoisan, or ‘click ‘speaking hunter-gatherers, Nilotic-speaking pastoralists (such as the Maasai), Cushitic speakers, and Bantu speakers; the latter predominate in terms of population size.’
- In a narrow strip on the western border of Ethiopia live the only people in the country who speak neither Semitic nor Cushitic languages.
- In the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Somali is an Eastern Cushitic language.
- Bilen is part of a larger Cushitic language subfamily called Agau.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Cush + -itic. |