Lowland East Cushitic languages

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Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of the Cushitic family of Afroasiatic languages spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, including widely used tongues such as Somali and Oromo.

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language subgroup
language branch
arealFeature contact with Ethiosemitic languages
contact with Nilo-Saharan languages
continent Africa
hasMajorLanguage Afar language NERFINISHED
Oromo language NERFINISHED
Saho language NERFINISHED
Somali language NERFINISHED
hasMember Afar language NERFINISHED
Alaba language NERFINISHED
Arbore language NERFINISHED
Baiso language NERFINISHED
Bayso language NERFINISHED
Boni language NERFINISHED
Burji language NERFINISHED
Dirasha language NERFINISHED
Elmolo language NERFINISHED
Gawwada language
Hadiyya language NERFINISHED
Kambaata language NERFINISHED
Konso language NERFINISHED
Oromo language NERFINISHED
Qimant language NERFINISHED
Rendille language NERFINISHED
Saho language NERFINISHED
Sidamo language NERFINISHED
Somali language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
partOf Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Cushitic languages NERFINISHED
region Horn of Africa NERFINISHED
spokenBy Afar people NERFINISHED
Oromo people NERFINISHED
Somali people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Djibouti NERFINISHED
Eritrea NERFINISHED
Ethiopia NERFINISHED
Kenya NERFINISHED
Somalia NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Cushitic languages
typologicalFeature case marking on nouns
grammatical gender
predominantly SOV word order
rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
writingSystemUsedByMembers Arabic script NERFINISHED
Geʽez script NERFINISHED
Latin script

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Northern Somali languageSubbranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
Qafar subfamilyOf Lowland East Cushitic languages
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic peoples
ssy linguisticBranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
subject surface form: Saho language
this entity surface form: Lowland East Cushitic