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 Afar...
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sub-group, along with Saho and Somali. Its closest relative is the Saho language. The Afar language is spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people in Djibouti...
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Afro-Asiatic-speaking communities, with Tigre speakers on the west and Afar speakers on the east. In Ethiopia, Saho is primarily spoken in the Tigray Region. It has about...
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mother tongue. According to Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad, most of the Saho (like the Afar and the Somali) have a primordial view of their own ethnicity, and...
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in Djibouti, and as the working language of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. Beja, Afar, Blin and Saho, the languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic...
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Cushitic classification from Tosco (2020:297): Lowland East Cushitic Saho–Afar Southern Nuclear Omo–Tana Oromoid Peripheral (?) Dullay Yaaku Highland...
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The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
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found further afield. Together, with the Saho language, Afar constitutes the Saho–Afar dialect cluster. Afar people are predominantly Muslim. They have...
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Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, and Kenya) Saho-Afar Afar language (also in Eritrea and in Djibouti) Saho language (also in Eritrea and in Ethiopia spoken...
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Eritreans (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic Beja Saho Afar Bilen Kunama...
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and its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of it dating...
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Thai Vietnamese Afro-Asiatic Afar Agaw Akkadian Amharic Ancient Egyptian Arabic Aramaic Beja Coptic Hebrew Maltese Oromo Saho Somali South Arabian Tamazight...
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speakers; other languages with more than a million speakers include Somali, Saho-Afar, Hadiyya, and Sidaama. Many Cushitic languages have relatively few...
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Somali people (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
peoples, especially with Lowland East Cushitic people, specifically the Afar and the Saho. Ethnic Somalis are principally concentrated in Somalia (around 17...
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The Saho People's Democratic Movement (SPDM) is an organized group in Eritrea, fighting for the self-determination of the Saho people. They are allied...
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Xamir people Afar people Saho people Irob people Arbore people Daasanach people El Molo people (most no longer speak a Cushitic language) Yaaku people...
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The Second Afar insurgency was an insurgency in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea (also known as Dankalia), waged...
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Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of the language dating back to the late...
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Arkiko (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
Arkiko (Arabic: حرقيقو, Afar and Saho: Hirg-Higo, alternately Archigo, Arqiqo, Ercoco, Hirgigo, Hargigo or Harkiko) is a town in the Northern Red Sea...
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Demographics of Eritrea (section Afar)
Afro-Asiatic languages belonging to the Cushitic branch are also widely spoken in the country. The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin, and Saho. In addition...
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Djibouti (category Articles containing Afar-language text)
August 2020. Lewis, I.M. (1955). Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho. International African Institute. p. 140. Archived from the original...
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Harari people (category Articles containing Harari-language text)
They speak the Harari language, a member of the South Ethiopic grouping within the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic languages. The Harla people, an...
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the Afar Region to the east and south, Shoumezana and Gulomakeda to the west, and Saesi Tsaedaemba to the south. The first two neighbors are Saho speakers...
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Beja people (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
Cushitic languages and in particular Afar and Saho, the linguistic hypothesis being historically grounded on the fact that the three languages were once...
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Make Jobo. 2016. Indigenous language shift in Siltie: Causes, effects and directions for revitalization. Journal of Languages and Culture 7(7): 69-78. Dirk...
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Gurage people (redirect from East Gurage languages)
subdued. The Gurage languages are a subgroup of the Ethiopian Semitic languages within the Semitic family of the Afroasiatic language family. They have...
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Eritrea (category Articles with Italian-language sources (it))
are Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Beja, Bilen, Kunama, Nara, and Saho. Tigrinya, Arabic, and English serve as de facto working languages, with English used in...
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Subject–object–verb word order (redirect from SOV language)
Basque Burushaski Cherokee Cushitic languages (Afar, Beja, Bilen, Oromo, Saho, Sidama, Somali) Dakota Dravidian languages (Brahui, Duruwa, Gondi, Kannada...
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Tigrinya people (category Articles containing Tigrinya-language text)
"Tigrinya People". Orville Jenkins Home. Retrieved 28 October 2023. "Languages of Eritrea". Ethnologue. Retrieved 15 November 2023. "Africa :: Eritrea...
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Somali, Afar and Saho. Red Sea Press. p. 25. ISBN 9781569021057. Lewis, I. M. (1 January 1998). Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho. Red...
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