adjective
relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken in the Middle East and North Africa. They can be divided into five groups: Semitic, Omotic, Berber, Cushitic, and Chadic. Ancient Egyptian was also a member of this family
（与）亚非语系（有关）的（指中东和北非地区使用的语系，包括闪语族奥莫特语族、柏柏尔语族、库什特语族和乍得语族，古埃及语也是该语系成员之一）。 亦称 Hamito-Semitic