Ethio-Semitic is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. It forms the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Gurage is a cluster of languages within Ethio-Semitic (Ethiopian Semitic), itself the branch of Afroasiatic native to the Ethiopian highlands; linked here to the direct Ethio-Semitic parent rather than the remoter Afroasiatic ancestor.
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Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan in Northeast Africa and the Horn of Africa.
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1. Glottolog: Ethiosemitic (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 16
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Ethiopian Semitic languages, Wikipedia
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spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan
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With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers
View the SourceWikidata: Ethio-Semitic
Wikidata Q163629, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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