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H. Ekkehard Wolff. 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. There are six major subdivisions within the Cushitic family: North Cushitic, or Beja; Central Cushitic (also known as Agau.
Somali belongs to a set of languages called Lowland East Cushitic spoken by Somalis living in Somalia, Djibouti, and in adjacent territories. Eastern Cushitic is one branch of the Cushitic languages, which in turn are part of the great Afro-Asiatic stock. Arabic is the most widely spoken language of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
The (Western) Omo–Tana or Arboroid languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya. The languages are: Arbore. Daasanach. El Molo. Yaaku. The first three have long been recognized as related; Bender (2020) adds Yaaku, whose classification had been obscure. [1] The El Molo language of Kenya is nearly extinct. [2]
It belongs to the Saho-Afar dialect cluster of the Lowland East Cushitic languages, which are part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. [16] and is closely related to Afar and Somali . Many Saho people have mingled with other Muslim tribes such as the Jeberti (Tigrinya-speaking Muslims) and the Tigre and have as a result adopted those tribes languages.
Other articles where Lowland East Cushitic languages is discussed: Cushitic languages: …Burji, Sidamo, Kambata, and Hadiyya; Lowland East Cushitic, including Dasenech, Arbore, Saho-Afar, and Oromo and its close relatives such as Konso; and the Omo-Tana group, with languages such as Somali, Rendille, and Boni.
Glottolog. burj1242. ELP. Burji. Burji is a Cushitic language. It is spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya, south of Lake Chamo. Around 70,000 people speak the language. [1]
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).
