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CUSHITIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cushitic mean?
• CUSHITIC (noun)
The noun CUSHITIC has 1 sense:
1. a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
Familiarity information: CUSHITIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Cushitic" is a kind of...):
Afrasian; Afrasian language; Afro-Asiatic; Afroasiatic; Afroasiatic language; Hamito-Semitic (a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cushitic"):
Somali (the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali)
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