Cushitic

E205344
branch of Afroasiatic language family branch

Cushitic is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa and parts of East Africa, encompassing languages such as Somali, Oromo, and Afar.

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All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
Cushitic languages 33
Cushitic canonical 8
Cushitic peoples 6

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Afroasiatic ⓘ
language family branch ⓘ
geographicDistribution Djibouti ⓘ
Eritrea ⓘ
Ethiopia ⓘ
Kenya ⓘ
Somalia ⓘ
Sudan ⓘ
Tanzania ⓘ
hasSubbranch Cushitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Agaw (Central Cushitic)

Dullay ⓘ
Highland East Cushitic ⓘ
Cushitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Lowland East Cushitic

North Cushitic ⓘ
Omo-Tana ⓘ
South Cushitic ⓘ
includesLanguage Afar ⓘ
Agaw languages ⓘ
Alagwa ⓘ
Arbore ⓘ
Beja ⓘ
Burji ⓘ
Hadiyya ⓘ
Iraqw ⓘ
Kambaata ⓘ
Konso ⓘ
Oromo ⓘ
Oromo cluster ⓘ
Rendille ⓘ
Saho ⓘ
Sidamo ⓘ
Somali ⓘ
Somali cluster ⓘ
languageFamilyCode cus ⓘ
majorLanguage Afar ⓘ
Beja ⓘ
Oromo ⓘ
Somali ⓘ
relatedTo Berber languages ⓘ
Chadic languages ⓘ
Omotic languages ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ
spokenInRegion East Africa ⓘ
Horn of Africa ⓘ
subfamilyOf Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
typologicalFeature complex case systems in some languages ⓘ
predominantly SOV or SVO word order depending on language ⓘ
rich consonant inventories ⓘ
use of grammatical gender ⓘ
writingSystemsUsed Arabic script ⓘ
Geʽez script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (64)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Somali → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
Somali → subfamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
Oromo → subfamilyOf → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic branch
Beja people → subgroupOf → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic peoples
Beja people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Afar → linguisticSubgroup → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
Hadza language → isNotPartOf → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic language family
Omotic languages → neighboringLanguageFamilies → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Sidamo → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
Sidamo → languageSubbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Highland East Cushitic
Egyptian language family → relatedTo → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Beja → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Bilen → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
Bilen → hasLinguisticAncestor → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Proto-Cushitic
Bilen people → ethnolinguisticGroup → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic peoples
Bilen people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Saho → subgroup → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
Saho people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Saho people → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Harold Fleming (linguist) → fieldOfWork → Cushitic ⓘ
subject surface form: Harold Fleming
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Harold Fleming (linguist) → studied → Cushitic ⓘ
subject surface form: Harold Fleming
this entity surface form: Cushitic language family
Somali people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Wolaytta → influencedBy → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Orma → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Orma → languageSubbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Borana-Arsi-Guji → subFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Borana-Arsi-Guji → subBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Benadiri Somali → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Benadiri Somali → languageSubbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Maay → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Maay → languageSubbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Digil → languageSubbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Rahanweyn → subFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Oromo people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Bedawiyet → subbranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: North Cushitic
Bedawiyet → contactInfluenceFrom → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Hadendoa → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Amarar → ethnicContext → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic peoples
Bisharin → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Cushitic → hasSubbranch → Cushitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
Cushitic → hasSubbranch → Cushitic self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Agaw (Central Cushitic)
El Molo → languageBranch → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Afar people → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Qafar → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Hatsa → isNotGeneticallyRelatedTo → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Lionel M. Bender → studied → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
North Omotic → neighboringLanguageGroups → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Mao → neighboringLanguages → Cushitic ⓘ
subject surface form: Mao language
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Sidama → languageFamily → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic languages
Sidama → ethnolinguisticGroup → Cushitic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cushitic peoples