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CUSHITIC
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I. (noun)
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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)