Lowland East Cushitic languages

Lowland East Cushitic
Geographic
distribution:		Horn of Africa
Linguistic classification:Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:
Saho–Afar
Oromoid
(Western) Omo–Tana
? Dahalo
? Rift
? Ongota
? Yaaku
? Boon

The Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of Cushitic languages spoken on the Horn of Africa. There are around 25 languages in the branch still spoken. The most spoken are the Oromo and Somali languages.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Richard Hayward, "Afroasiatic", in Heine & Nurse, 2000, African Languages
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