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Afar (Afar: Qafaraf; also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people inhabiting Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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.
The Saho–Afar languages (also known as Afar–Saho) are a dialect-cluster belonging to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. They include the Afar and Saho languages, which are spoken in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Characteristic features of Saho-Afar include the following: Preservation of the pharyngeal fricatives / ħ / and / ʕ /
Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken by a about 2.5 million people mainly in Ethiopia, and also in Djibouti and Eritrea. In 2018 there were about 1.8 million speakers of Afar in the regions of Afar, Amhara and Somali in eastern Ethiopia.
Somali is the official working language of Somali Region and Dire Dawa, while Afar, [20] Harari, [21] and Tigrinya [22] are recognized as official working languages in their respective regions. Recently the Ethiopian Government announced that Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, and Tigrinya are adopted as official federal working languages of Ethiopia.
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Afar, also known as Afar Af, is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa. It belongs to the Lowland East Cushitic branch of the Cushitic family, which is a part of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family.
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…Horn of Africa who speak Afar (also known as ’Afar Af), a language of the Eastern Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They live in northeastern Ethiopia, southeastern Eritrea, and Djibouti, where, with the Issas, they are the dominant people.
