The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with about 600,000 speakers. Scholars believe these languages were spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC.
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Proto-Language StatusProto-South-Cushitic, homeland in southwestern Ethiopia 1 In the Other Atlases
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The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages.
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The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania
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The original homeland of Proto-South-Cushitic was in southwestern Ethiopia.
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