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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.
- Cushitic languages
Hetzron (1980) and Ehret (1995) have suggested that the...
- Category:East Cushitic languages
Lowland East Cushitic languages. Afar language....
- Cushitic languages
The Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of Cushitic languages spoken on the Horn of Africa. There are around 25 languages in the branch still spoken. The most spoken are the Oromo and Somali languages. [1]
Speakers of North Cushitic. Beja people; Speakers of Central Cushitic. Agaw people. Awi people; Beta Israel; Bilen people; Qemant people; Xamir people; Speakers of Lowland East Cushitic languages. Afar people; Saho people; Irob people; Arbore people; Daasanach people; El Molo people (most no longer speak a Cushitic language)
Afar is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is further categorized in the Lowland East Cushitic sub-group, along with Saho and Somali . [2] Its closest relative is the Saho language.
- 2,500,000 (2018–2020)
The sheer majority of Cushitic languages belong to one single subgroup: East Cushitic (EC). Its speech area extends from Eritrea with Saho to Mount Kenya with the extinct Yaaku language, and from the Indian Ocean with ‘Afar and Somali to the Sudanese-Ethiopian border with Dhaasanac (see Map 21.1 ).
