What does "hamito-semitic" mean?

a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa

Hamito-semitic

Common synonyms include: afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, language.

adj, name

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From Hamite + -o- + Semitic or Hamito- + Semitic.