South Ethiosemitic Languages
| South Ethiopian Semitic | ||
|---|---|---|
| 
 Spoken in  | 
Ethiopia and Eritrea | |
| Linguistic  classification  | 
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The South Ethiopian Semitic languages are a group of Afro-Asian languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea .
Within the Semitic languages, they belong to the Southwest Semitic languages . Here again they belong to the Ethiosemitic languages .
The South Ethiosemitic languages themselves are divided into the outer South Ethiosemitic languages and the transversal South Ethiosemitic languages .
languages
- Transversal
- Amharic – Argobba
 - Harari - Eastern Gurage
 
 - Outer
- n-group:
 - tt group:
- Mesmes (extinct)
 - Muher
 - 
West Gurage
- Masqan (Mesqan)
 - Sebat Bet
- Sebat Bet Gurage (dialects: Chaha , Ezha , Gumer , Gura )
 - Inor (dialects: Ennemor [eigtl. Inor] , Endegegn , Gyeto )
 
 
 
 
 
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World . 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.