South Cushitic languages
Branch of the Cushitic languages of Tanzania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. Scholars believe that these languages were spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC.[1]
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South Cushitic | |
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Rift | |
Geographic distribution | Tanzania |
Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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Glottolog | sout3054 |
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