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Branch of Afroasiatic native to East Africa
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic
Cushitic_languages
Collection of ethnic groups residing in East Africa
Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively. Cushitic languages are spoken as a mother tongue primarily
Cushitic-speaking_peoples
Branch of Cushitic native to the Horn of Africa and Kenya
The East Cushitic languages are a branch of Cushitic within the Afroasiatic phylum. Prominent East Cushitic languages include Afar, Oromo, and Somali.
East_Cushitic_languages
Branch of the Cushitic languages of Tanzania
The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with 600,000 speakers. Scholars believe
South_Cushitic_languages
Language family of Ethiopia and Sudan
Nilo-Saharan (Surmic and Nilotic) languages and from Afroasiatic languages, including Damotic, Dizoid, and Cushitic. Güldemann (2018) stresses that existing
Omotic_languages
Hypothetical reconstructed proto-language
to have spoken Cushitic languages related to the modern Beja language. Less certain are hypotheses which propose that Cushitic languages were spoken by
Proto-Cushitic_language
Branch of Cushitic languages spoken in Northeast Africa
North Cushitic languages comprise a branch of the Cushitic family within the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. It includes the modern day Beja language, spoken
North_Cushitic_languages
Cushitic languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea
The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afroasiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum
Agaw_languages
Hypothetical extinct Cushitic languages
Taita Cushitic is a pair of hypothesized South Cushitic languages, assumed to have been spoken by Cushitic peoples inhabiting the Taita Hills of Kenya
Taita_Cushitic_languages
Cushitic language of Northeast Africa
of Cushitic (e.g. idiosyncratic features in Agaw or Central Cushitic). The characteristics of Beja that differ from those of other Cushitic languages are
Beja_language
Group of Cushitic languages of East Africa
Lowland East Cushitic is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives
Lowland East Cushitic languages
Lowland_East_Cushitic_languages
in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo, and Somali
Languages_of_Ethiopia
Large language family of Africa and West Asia
Semitic Tigrinya, Tigre and Modern Hebrew, the Cushitic Beja, Sidama and Afar languages, the Berber languages (Shilha, Kabyle, Central Atlas Tamazight, Shawiya
Afroasiatic_languages
Afroasiatic language branch of Ethiopia
Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and Yaaku as East Cushitic. The most popular language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers. The languages are: Burji
Highland East Cushitic languages
Highland_East_Cushitic_languages
Lowland East Cushitic branch containing Oromo and Konsoid dialects
The Oromoid languages are a branch of Lowland East Cushitic languages that includes the most populous Cushitic language, Oromo, and the closely related
Oromoid_languages
Arabic and English as official languages, alongside ethnic Eritrean languages like Tigre, Afar and other Cushitic languages, as well as the Nilo-Saharan
Languages_of_Eritrea
Archaic name for God in Cushitic languages such as Oromo and Somali
Cushitic languages, including the Oromo and Somali languages. Waaqa (Oromo pronunciation: [waːkʼa]) still means 'God' in the present Oromo language.
Waaq
endoglossic language. It is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, and its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages. Somali
Languages_of_Somalia
Cushitic ethnic group in Ethiopia and Eritrea
languages, also known as the Central Cushitic languages, which belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. The Agaw peoples in general
Agaw_people
Reconstructed ancestor of the East Cushitic languages
Proto-East-Cushitic is the reconstructed proto-language common ancestor of the Eastern branch of the Cushitic language family. Its words and roots are
Proto-East-Cushitic_language
Afro-Asiatic language native to the Horn of Africa
known as ’Afar af, Qafar af, or عَفَر أَف, is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch, primarily spoken by the Afar people, native to parts
Afar_language
Branch of the Afroasiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine (ms) Blench, Roger. 2008. Links between Cushitic, Omotic
Chadic_languages
Endangered Cushitic language of Kenya
Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual
Dahalo_language
Group of Lowland East Cushitic languages of East Africa
Afroasiatic Semitic languages, Ancient Egyptian, etc. Cushitic Beja, Agaw languages, etc. East Cushitic Highland East Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Oromo, Afar
Somali_languages
Cushitic ethnic group native to Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea
The Beja people or the Bejas are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern
Beja_people
Sociolinguistic phenomena
and Austronesian languages as well as some North American languages, Highland East Cushitic languages and Southern Bantu languages. Chinese naming taboo
Avoidance_speech
Afro-Asiatic language spoken by Sidama people in Ethiopia
used in the past to refer to most Highland East Cushitic languages, earlier even to some Omotic languages. The results from a research study conducted in
Sidama_language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
the Egyptian and Semitic languages, to as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries for many Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages) mean that determining
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
Cushitic language
Libya, Egypt and Sudan. Oromo is the most widely spoken Cushitic language and among the five languages of Africa with the largest mother-tongue populations
Oromo_language
is a list of languages and groups of languages that developed within Jewish diaspora communities through contact with surrounding languages. Kayla Qwara
List of Jewish diaspora languages
List_of_Jewish_diaspora_languages
Bantu language spoken in Tanzania
ever a Southern Cushitic Language (Pre-) Ma'a?". In Voigt, Rainer M.; Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine (eds.). Cushitic and Omotic languages: proceedings of
Mbugu_language
Cushitic language of the Horn of Africa
the Somali language. As of 2025, Somali, Afar and Oromo are the only 3 Cushitic languages available on Google Translate. The Somali languages are broadly
Somali_language
Northernmost part of Nubia
states that Cushitic languages once dominated Lower Nubia along with the Ancient Egyptian language. Rilly (2019) states: "Two Afro-Asiatic languages were present
Lower_Nubia
People from Eritrea and its diaspora
Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. [[Tigrinya [[Tigre Arabic Beja
Eritreans
Group of African language families with click consonants
The Khoisan languages (/ˈkɔɪsɑːn/ KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a sprachbund of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph
Khoisan_languages
Name list
used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish
Richard
Biblical character
identified in the Bible with the Kingdom of Kush or ancient Aethiopia. The Cushitic languages are also named after Cush. Cush is a Hebrew name that is possibly
Cush_(Bible)
Dialect-cluster belonging to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family
The Saho–Afar languages (also known as Afar–Saho) are a dialect-cluster belonging to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. They include the
Saho–Afar_languages
Afroasiatic (Cushitic). They are spoken by the country's Bantu, Nilotic and Cushitic populations respectively. The Arab ethnic minority speak languages belonging
Languages_of_Kenya
Extinct language in Egypt
consonants, as in many Semitic languages, or one of aspirated and ejective consonants, as in many Cushitic languages. Since vowels were not written until
Egyptian_language
Branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family
implosives is also reconstructed in the East Cushitic languages, specifically in Somaloid. Many obscure ancient languages or peoples have been postulated by scholars
Nakh_languages
Ancient Sudanese kingdom
Kerma peoples spoke Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic branch. They propose that the Nilo-Saharan Nobiin language today contains a number of key pastoralism
Kerma_culture
Highland East Cushitic language in Ethiopia
Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata people. Closely
Kambaata_language
East Rift language spoken in Tanzania
Rift / South Cushitic roots, as well as loanwords from other languages from the area, as also in the other Rift languages. The non-Cushitic numerals itame
Kwʼadza_language
Extinct Cushitic language of Tanzania
classified as Cushitic, most closely related to Kw'adza. However, it might have retained a non-Cushitic layer from an earlier language shift. The Aramanik
Asa_language
Bantu ethnic group of southwest Africa
pastoralist groups testifies that Bantu herders originally acquired cattle from Cushitic pastoralists inhabiting Eastern Africa. After the Bantu settled in Eastern
Herero_people
(although Hadza may be a language isolate). The Cushitic and Semitic ethnic minorities speak languages belonging to the separate Afro-Asiatic family, with
Languages_of_Tanzania
Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
as a "leftover" letter is the differing usage in three different Cushitic languages: Afar: voiced retroflex plosive /ɖ/ Oromo: alveolar ejective /tʼ/
X
Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia
The Saho language (Tigrinya: ሳሆ/ቋንቋ ሳሆ) is a Cushitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Saho is spoken natively
Saho_language
Ethnolinguistic group native to northern Sudan and southern Egypt
Nilo-Saharan Nubian languages as their mother tongue, which are part of the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, and Arabic as a second language. Neolithic settlements
Nubians
Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia
one of the ten major languages in Ethiopia. It is a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afroasiatic family. Most speakers live in the Hadiya Zone of
Hadiyya_language
Language family
Somaloid languages, or (in the conception of Bernd Heine, who does not include Baiso) Sam languages, are a branch of the Lowland East Cushitic languages. They
Macro-Somali_languages
Cushitic language in Ethiopia
Kayla. Along with all other Cushitic languages, Qimant belongs to the Afroasiatic language family. Qimant is the original language of the Qemant people of
Qimant_language
Proposed Semitic branch of south Arabia and East Africa
that the ancestors of Ethiopians spoke a non-Semitic language (or languages, such as Cushitic languages) before adopting Semitic. Evidence for movements across
South_Semitic_languages
Ethnic group in Ethiopia
They speak Halaba-Kʼabeena which is a member of the Highland East Cushitic languages within the Afroasiatic family. Sidi Mohammed the Garad of Hadiya is
Halaba_people
Family of languages spoken in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan
western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. With 57,500,000 total speakers
Ethio-Semitic_languages
Language influencing or influenced by another through contact
Roman Empire giving rise to Romance languages outside Italy, displacing Gaulish and many other Indo-European languages. The superstratum case refers to elite
Stratum_(linguistics)
Cushitic language spoken in southwestern Ethiopia
Kareti, Afa Karatti, Conso, Gato, Karate, Kareti) is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia. Native speakers of Konso number about
Konso_language
Unicode character block
Tigre, Harari, Gurage and other Ethiosemitic languages and Central Cushitic languages or Agaw languages. The following Unicode-related documents record
Ethiopic_(Unicode_block)
East Cushitic spoken by Somalis living in Somalia, Djibouti, and in adjacent territories. Eastern Cushitic is one branch of the Cushitic languages, which
Languages_of_Somaliland
Highland East Cushitic language spoken in south central Ethiopia
is a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in south central Ethiopia. Alternate names for the language include Derasa, Deresa
Gedeo_language
International standard for three-letter codes identifying languages
pidgins cus Cushitic languages day Land Dayak languages dra Dravidian languages fiu Finno-Ugrian languages gem Germanic languages ijo Ijo languages inc Indic
ISO_639-2
Cushitic language family of Ethiopia
The Dullay languages belong to the Cushitic subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language family and are spoken in Ethiopia. Dullay is a dialect continuum consisting
Dullay_languages
Cushtic language spoken in Ethiopia
Bussa, or Mossiya, is a Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region located in
Bussa_language
Family of languages
influences from Cushitic languages, and more recently Eastern Nilotic languages, are observable in the vocabulary and phonology of Kuliak languages. Blench notes
Kuliak_languages
Hypothetical linguistic homeland
Proto-Southern Cushitic languages and the East African Savanna Pastoral Neolithic (3000 BC), and archaeological evidence associates the Proto-Cushitic speakers
Proto-Afroasiatic_homeland
Ethio-Semitic language
the sole official language of Ethiopia. Early Afro-Asiatic populations speaking proto-Semitic, proto-Cushitic and proto-Omotic languages would have diverged
Amharic
Afro-Asiatic language of Ethiopia
East Cushitic group of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The language has the SOV (subject–object–verb) word order common to the Cushitic family
Burji_language
Endangered Cushitic language of Somalia
Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinct Cushitic language spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region of southern Somalia. In
Boon_language
Cushitic ethnic group in south-central Ethiopia
State. The Kambaata people and Kambaatissa (their language) belongs to the East Highland Cushitic language family. Kambaata was first mentioned in the chronicles
Kambaata_people
Brewed beverage
of the bean, which are known in Arabic as bunn and in Cushitic languages as būn. Semitic languages have the root qhh, 'dark color', which became a natural
Coffee
Subgroup of the Nilotic language family
Southern Nilotic languages appear to have been influenced considerably by Cushitic (Afro-Asiatic) languages. The Kalenjin languages are spoken by the
Southern_Nilotic_languages
Language that arises amongst a bilingual group
of many languages acquire a common language, a mixed language typically arises in a population that is fluent in both of the source languages. Because
Mixed_language
widely spoken Afroasiatic languages include Arabic (a Semitic language, and a recent arrival from West Asia), Somali (Cushitic), Berber (Berber), Hausa
Languages_of_Africa
Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania
Alagwa (Alaagwa’isa) is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Dodoma region. Some Alagwa have shifted to other languages such as Sandawe. Sounds
Alagwa_language
Ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region
number of words related to pastoralism in the Rwanda-Rundi languages are Tale Southern Cushitic loanwords, such as "bull", "cow dung", and "lion". Some oral
Tutsi
Dialect of the Somali language
(1998). Dictionary of languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages. Columbia University Press. p. 571. "Somali Language - Structure, Writing
Northern_Somali
Bantu language spoken in Kenya
considered a language separate from the Dawʼida and Kasigau dialects. Dawʼida and Saghala contain loanwords from two different South Cushitic languages, called
Taita_language
Ethnic religion practiced by Oromo people
Africa and to other Cushitic-speaking peoples. Its name derives from Waaqa, an ancient name for the creator in several Cushitic languages, including those
Waaqeffanna
Regional state of Ethiopia
Sidama has a population of around 3.2 million in 2017 who speak the Cushitic language Sidama (also known as Sidaamu Afoo). Historically, the Sidama nation
Sidama_Region
Hungarian linguist (1938–1997)
comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Born in Hungary, as a child, Hetzron
Robert_Hetzron
Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania
Iraqw (/ɪˈrɑːkuː/) is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha and Manyara Regions. It is expanding in numbers as the Iraqw people absorb
Iraqw_language
Cushitic language of Kenya
the Arbore language. El Molo belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The Cushitic languages are one of the largest language families
El_Molo_language
Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea
around the city of Keren in Eritrea. It is the only Agaw (Central Cushitic) language spoken in Eritrea. It is spoken by about 72,000 people. "Blin" is
Bilen_language
Demonym for a nomadic group in Upper Nubia
evidence indicates that the Medjay spoke an ancient Cushitic language related to the Cushitic Beja language and that the Blemmyes were a subdivision of the
Medjay
German linguist (born 1962)
include language documentation, phonetics, historical linguistics, Cushitic languages (particularly the South Cushitic languages), Nilotic languages (particularly
Roland_Kiessling
Family of languages and dialects Indigenous to North Africa
Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages (also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a
Berber_languages
Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa
Saho language as a mother tongue. It belongs to the Saho-Afar dialect cluster of the Lowland East Cushitic languages, which are part of the Cushitic branch
Saho_people
Reconstructed ancestor of the Berber languages
are cousins to the Egyptian language, Cushitic languages, Semitic languages, Chadic languages, and the Omotic languages. Proto-Berber shows features
Proto-Berber_language
features, and proud bearing, they speak different Cushitic languages from the great Afroasiatic language family, and traditionally lived as nomadic pastoralists
Culture_of_Djibouti
Branch of the Afroasiatic languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 460 million people
Semitic_languages
Omotic language family of Ethiopia
of Cushitic, renaming it as West Cushitic. Bender (2000, 2003) notes that South Omotic is in fact quite divergent from other Afroasiatic languages, and
Aroid_languages
Cushitic family of languages spoken in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya
The Omo–Tana languages are a branch of the Cushitic family and are spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Kenya. The largest member is Somali
Omo–Tana_languages
Afroasiatic language
Cushitic Language Studies Volume 22. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Savà, Graziano (2021). "Transcription and orthography in two endangered languages
Tsamai_language
Language family
hunter-gatherers who spoke Cushitic languages, and the Mukogodo-Maasai (Yaaku), former bee-keepers and hunter-gatherers (Eastern Cushitic). The Okiek of northern
Maa_languages
Moribund unclassified language of Ethiopia
East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substratum—that is, that Ongota speakers shifted to East Cushitic from an earlier Nilo-Saharan language, traces
Ongota_language
Feature of language
Basque Burushaski Cherokee Cushitic languages (Afar, Beja, Bilen, Oromo, Saho, Sidama, Somali) Dakota Dravidian languages (Brahvi, Duruwa, Gondi, Kannada
Subject–object–verb word order
Subject–object–verb_word_order
Cushitic ethnic group
ORR-əm-oh) are a Cushitic ethnic group who live in the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of northern Kenya. They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan
Oromo_people
Endangered Qimant dialect spoken in Ethiopia
Endangered Languages Profile for Hwarasa Archived 2019-01-11 at the Wayback Machine SIL – Sociolinguist report of the Kemant (Qimant) Language of Ethiopia
Qwara_dialect
include major languages like Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu and Shona, but also many very small Bantu languages. Afroasiatic languages (Cushitic, Chadic, Semitic
Language endangerment and extinction in Africa
Language_endangerment_and_extinction_in_Africa
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