Afar

E50164

Afroasiatic language Cushitic language language

Afar is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, especially in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Afar canonical	21
Afar people	4
Aussa Afar	2
Central Afar	2
Northern Afar	2
Afar Region	1
Afaraf	1
Saho–Afar branch	1
Somalis	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afroasiatic language ⓘ Cushitic language ⓘ language ⓘ
alternativeName	Afar ⓘ surface form: Afaraf Qafar ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Oromo ⓘ Saho ⓘ Somali ⓘ
countryStatus	recognized language in Djibouti ⓘ recognized language in Eritrea ⓘ recognized language in Ethiopia ⓘ
glottologCode	afar1241 ⓘ
hasApproximateSpeakers	over 1 million speakers ⓘ
hasDialects	Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Aussa Afar Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Central Afar Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Northern Afar
hasStandardizationEfforts	orthography development in late 20th century ⓘ
iso639-1Code	aa ⓘ
iso639-2Code	aar ⓘ
iso639-3Code	aar ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afroasiatic Cushitic ⓘ
linguisticSubgroup	Cushitic ⓘ surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
morphology	agglutinative morphology ⓘ
nativeName	Qafar af ⓘ
phonologyFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ emphatic consonants ⓘ
primaryAreaWithinDjibouti	Dikhil Region ⓘ
primaryAreaWithinEritrea	Southern Red Sea Region ⓘ
primaryAreaWithinEthiopia	Afar Region ⓘ
region	Horn of Africa ⓘ
scriptUsage	Latin-based orthography used in modern publications ⓘ
spokenBy	Afar people ⓘ
spokenIn	Djibouti ⓘ Eritrea ⓘ Ethiopia ⓘ
typology	SOV word order (tends toward subject–object–verb) ⓘ
usedAlongside	Amharic in Ethiopia ⓘ Arabic in Djibouti ⓘ Tigrinya in Eritrea ⓘ
usedFor	education at primary level in some areas ⓘ folk songs ⓘ local administration in Afar Region of Ethiopia ⓘ oral poetry ⓘ
writingSystem	Geʽez script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (35)

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

Lake Assal → regionLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Ethiopia → recognizedLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Djibouti → recognizedNationalLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Djibouti → ethnicGroupSignificant → Afar ⓘ

Islamic world → hasEthnicGroup → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somalis

Eritrea → recognizedNationalLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Eritrea → majorEthnicGroup → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afar people

Horn of Africa → hasEthnicGroup → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afar people

Tadjourah Region → languageSpoken → Afar ⓘ

Tadjourah Region → ethnicGroup → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afar people

Danakil Desert → locatedIn → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afar Region

Danakil Desert → inhabitedBy → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afar people

Tadjoura → languageCommon → Afar ⓘ

Afar → hasDialects → Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Afar

Afar → hasDialects → Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Afar

Afar → hasDialects → Afar self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aussa Afar

Afar → alternativeName → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afaraf

Djibouti City → commonlySpokenLanguage → Afar ⓘ

French Territory of the Afars and the Issas → usedLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Saho → belongsToBranch → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saho–Afar branch

Kunama → neighboringLanguages → Afar ⓘ

Dikhil Region → commonlySpokenLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Randa → languageUsed → Afar ⓘ

Obock Region → nationalLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Afar language → hasDialects → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Afar

Afar language → hasDialects → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Afar

Afar language → hasDialects → Afar ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aussa Afar

Ethiopian literature → hasLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Cushitic → includesLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Cushitic → majorLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Afar Region → officialLanguage → Afar ⓘ

Qafar → hasExonym → Afar ⓘ

Ethiopian → maySpeak → Afar ⓘ

Ogaden → languageSpoken → Afar ⓘ

Edd → languageUsed → Afar ⓘ