• However, among linguists specializing in the Cushitic languages, the standard classification of Beja as North Cushitic is accepted.[47].
  • Cushitic languages, a division of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, comprising about 40 languages that are spoken mainly in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia...
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  • Other Cushitic languages with more than one million speakers are Afar (1.5 million) and Beja (1.2 million).
  • For Südkuschitischen expects Ehret 1980, the languages spoken in Kenya and Tanzania Rift languages, Dahalo and Mbugu, a Cushitic - Bantu mixed language.
  • The Cushitic languages, a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, are spoken in the countries located in the Horn of Africa.
  • The tonal system of Cushitic languages operates at the grammatical, rather than at the lexical level, as it does in languages such as Chinese.
  • They are divided into North, Central and East groups. East Cushitic is by far the largest both in terms of the number of languages and of speakers.
  • As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and Sidama.
  • The Ethiopian languages are divided into four major language groups.These are Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan.