Cushite

English Alternative forms en Kushite Etymology en :af Cush<id:son of Ham> -ite 1 From en Cush ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876). Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Cushite.wav US Adjective - Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush. Translations pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa Arabic: ar كُوشِيّ m, ar كُوشِيَّة f German: de kuschitisch Hebrew: he כּוּשִׁי m kushí Proper noun en linguistics The Cushitic subfamily of languages. en 1915 w:Carl Meinhof A. Werner An Introduction to the Study of African Languages London w:J. M. Dent & Sons aisOAAAAIAAJ 150 Cushite Similarly, in the Hamitic area, the Berber languages of the north-west are clearly distinguished from Ful, and these, again, from the Nilotic languages, which, in their turn, are quite distinct from the “Cushite” languages in the east (i.e. Somali, Galla, Saho, Bedauye, etc.). en 1990 Joseph Greenberg [Joseph H. Greenberg] Internal a- Plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) (1955) Keith Denning; Suzanne Kemmer On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg Stanford, CA w:Stanford University Press 9780804716130 _B2BVl2JpT0C 401 Cushite The numerous Cushite languages of East Africa make up another branch of Afroasiatic and can be separated for convenience into five subgroups—northern, central, eastern, western, and southern. The northern branch of Cushite consists of a number of closely related dialects of which Bedauye, the best known, may be taken as representative. en 1995 David M. Helgren; Robert J. Sager World Geography Today w:Holt, Rinehart and Winston 0030967953 ABaXbS-UDq0C 454 Cushite In the second language category are Cushite speakers. Cushite is a subdivison of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Cushite speakers live in areas stretching from the coast of the Red Sea across the Horn of Africa. Noun en anthropology dated _ in academic contexts A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages. Translations member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa German: de Kuschite m, de Kuschitin f, de Kuschiter m, de Kuschiterin f Hebrew: he כּוּשִׁי m kushí Tumbuka: tum muEtiyopiya 1 Derived terms en anti-Cushite Anagrams en cehistu cuteish en eponyms en Language families