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Cushitic constitutes one of the largest and most important language families of East Africa. Nearly 30 million people have a Cushitic language as their mother tongue (Oromo alone counts more than 20 million speakers). The geographical area in which Cushitic is spoken stretches from North-east Sudan at the Egyptian border, embracing Eritrea,
Glottolog. bais1246. ELP. Bayso. Baiso or Bayso is an Afro-Asiatic, more specifically a Lowland East Cushitic language belonging to the Omo-Tana subgroup, and is spoken in Ethiopia, in the region around Lake Abaya. [1] Alternative names for Baiso are Giddicho, named after an island on Lake Abaya, and Alkali. [2]
The Afar language ( Afar: Qafaraf) (also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is a lowland East Cushitic language spoken by the Afar people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is thought to have 1.5 million speakers. Its most similar language is the Saho language. [2]
The most widely spoken Cushitic language is Oromo (including all its variations) with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali with about 20 million speakers (including diaspora populations), and Sidamo with about three million speakers. Other Cushitic languages with more than one million speakers are Afar (1.5 million) and Beja (1.2 million).
Jan 1, 2021 · of the language and their absence from Highland East Cushitic points to their origins in Lowland East Cushitic and/or Beja. 68 As well as having the meaning of ‘pregnant’, see Hudson (1986: 78 ...
Cushitic constitutes one of the largest and most important language families of East Africa. Nearly 30 million people have a Cushitic language as their mother tongue (Oromo alone counts more than 20 million speakers). The geographical area in which Cushitic is spoken stretches from North-east Sudan at the Egyptian border, embracing Eritrea,
SOMALI (Af-Soomaali) Somali is a Lowland East Cushitic language of the Afroasiatic super-family spoken by some 12 million people in the eastern Horn of Africa as well as in the Somali diaspora in North America, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Italy, the Gulf States and other parts of the Middle East. Poetry is right at the heart of Somali ...
