East Cushite languages
The East Cushitic languages belong to the Cushitic primary branch of the Afro-Asian language family . Most of these languages are spoken in south-west Ethiopia ; East Cushitic languages are also spoken in east Ethiopia, south-east Eritrea , Somalia , Djibouti and north-east Kenya .
The most important individual languages are Oromo, spoken by around 30 million people, and Somali , the national language of Somalia, spoken by at least 12 million . Other East Cushitic languages, each with over a million speakers, are Sidama , Hadiyya , Kambaata and Afar .
classification
- Afro-Asian
- Cushy
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East Kushite
- Highland East Kushite
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Lowland East Kushite
- Afar-Saho
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Omo-Tana languages (Somaloid)
- (North Omo-Tana / Bayso ; also classified under West Omo-Tana)
- West Omo Tana
- East Omo Tana / Sam languages
- (Oromoid; omitted in some classifications, so that Oromo and Konso-Gidole form two separate branches of East Kushitic)
- Dullay languages
- ( Yaaku ; allocation to East Kushite disputed)
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East Kushite
- Cushy
Tosco and Savà (2003) also classify Ongota / Birale as part of East Kushitic, while other researchers consider this language to be a separate branch of the Afro-Asian language family. In 1980, Robert Hetzron proposed that the South Cushite languages spoken in Tanzania be classified as part of the East Cushite languages for morphological reasons.
Web links
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- Cushitic , in: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica , Volume 1, 2003, ISBN 978-3447047463
- ↑ cf. Baiso at Ethnologue
- ↑ cf. East Kushite at Ethnologue
- ↑ Graziano Sava, Mauro Tosco: The classification of Ongota language , in: Lionel Bender et al. (Ed.): Selected comparative-historical Afrasian linguistic studies. LINCOM Europe, Munich 2003
- ↑ Maarten Mous: A grammar of Iraqw , Kuschitische Sprachstudien 9, Buske Verlag 1993, ISBN 9783875480573 (p. 3f.)