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  2. Lowland East Cushitic [1] is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives are Oromo and Somali . Classification. Lowland East Cushitic classification from Tosco (2020:297): [2] Saho–Afar. Southern. Nuclear. Omo–Tana. Oromoid. Peripheral (?) Dullay. Yaaku.

  3. Speakers of Lowland East Cushitic languages. Speakers of Highland East Cushitic languages. Speakers of West Rift Southern Cushitic languages. References. Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively.

  4. The soundness of the old and elusive concept of “Lowland East Cushitic” is discussed. In the end, an overarching opposition between a Lowland and Highland branch is proposed, with the latter being the result of specific innovations.

  5. The Cushitic languages are spoken primarily in the modern nation states of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania. The chapter discusses the relationship with Omotic, and elaborates on the four branches of Cushitic: North, Central, East, and South.

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