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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.
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Hetzron (1980) and Ehret (1995) have suggested that the...
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The Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of Cushitic...
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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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Cushitic languages. The Agaw languages, in their turn, are all classified in the same group, and the same is true for West Cushitic. The inclusion of Beja within Lowland Cushitic and the fusion of the "Sidama" languages (see below) with the Agaw in a unique group certainly turned out to be a mistake, but that was not so easy to ascertain as it ...
Cushitic languages are often described as tonal, meaning that they incorporate two (high and low) or sometimes three (high, middle, and low) pitches to distinguish among words that are otherwise identical; contrast this to the use of intonation (as in English), in which meaning is provided by pitch changes (rising, falling) that occur across the...
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.
