Afar
E50164
Afar is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, especially in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
Observed surface forms (8)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Afar people | 4 |
| Afar Region | 1 |
| Afaraf | 1 |
| Aussa Afar | 1 |
| Central Afar | 1 |
| Northern Afar | 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 (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Afaraf
this entity surface form:
Saho–Afar branch
this entity surface form:
Afar people
this entity surface form:
Northern Afar
this entity surface form:
Central Afar
this entity surface form:
Aussa Afar
this entity surface form:
Afar people
this entity surface form:
Somalis
this entity surface form:
Afar people
this entity surface form:
Afar Region
this entity surface form:
Afar people