Highland East Cushitic languages
Afroasiatic language branch of Ethiopia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Highland East Cushitic or Burji-Sidamo is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in south-central Ethiopia. They are often grouped with Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and Yaaku as East Cushitic, but that group is not well defined. The most populous language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers.
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Highland East Cushitic | |
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Sidamic | |
Geographic distribution | Ethiopia |
Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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Glottolog | high1285 |
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The languages are:
The four to six Sidamoid languages are all closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. Their relationship with Burji is more distant and was first proposed in 1940;[1] it has been accepted widely but not universally.