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  1. 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.

  2. It is further categorized in the Lowland East Cushitic sub-group, along with Saho and Somali. Its closest relative is the Saho language. Geographic distribution. The Afar language is spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people in Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar Region of Ethiopia.

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  3. Cushitic languages, a division of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, comprising about 40 languages that are spoken mainly in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and northwestern Kenya.

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