Saho–Afar languages

Saho–Afar
Geographic
distribution:
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti
Linguistic classification:

Afro-Asiatic

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: saho1245[1]

The Saho–Afar languages (also known as Afar–Saho) are a dialect-cluster belonging to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. They include the Afar and Saho languages, which are spoken in Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia.[2]

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Saho–Afar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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