Cushitic is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken mainly in the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and parts of Kenya and Tanzania. Its largest members are Oromo and Somali, each spoken by tens of millions of people, alongside languages such as Sidama and Afar.
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RegionThe Horn of Africa, with minority populations in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusProto-Cushitic is reconstructed; Christopher Ehret argues for a unified Proto-Cushitic language in the Red Sea Hills as far back as the Early Holocene. 1 Cushitic
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Agaw (Central Cushitic) is a branch of the Cushitic family spoken in the Ethiopian highlands.
East Cushitic is the largest branch of Cushitic, including Oromo and the Somali languages.
Descends From
Cushitic, grouping Oromo, Somali and their relatives, is a primary branch of Afro-Asiatic.
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Source Wikipedia: Oromo Language
Source Wikipedia: Somali Language
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They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wikipedia: Cushitic LanguagesLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
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They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
Origin and prehistory section
Christopher Ehret argues for a unified Proto-Cushitic language in the Red Sea Hills as far back as the Early Holocene.
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c. 85 million
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Wikipedia: Somali Language
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Cushitic
Wikipedia: Oromo Language
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Cushitic
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