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Afar (Afar: Qafaraf; also known as ’Afar af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people inhabiting Djibouti , Eritrea and Ethiopia .
It is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. The Afar language is spoken by ethnic Afars in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, as well as in southern Eritrea and northern Djibouti. However, since the Afar are traditionally nomadic herders, Afar speakers may be found further afield. Together, with the Saho language, Afar ...
Somali is the official working language of Somali Region and Dire Dawa, while Afar, [35] Harari, [36] and Tigrinya [37] are recognized as official working languages in their respective regions. Recently the Ethiopian Government announced that Afar , Amharic , Oromo , Somali , and Tigrinya are adopted as official federal working languages of ...
Additionally, Afar is a language of instruction in Djibouti, [12] as well as the working language of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. [9] Origin and prehistory
In 1844, Theodor Benfey first described the relationship between Semitic and the Egyptian language and connected both to the Berber and the Cushitic languages (which he called "Ethiopic"). [78] In the same year T.N. Newman suggested a relationship between Semitic and the Hausa language, an idea that was taken up by early scholars of Afroasiatic ...
Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively. Today, the Cushitic languages are spoken as a mother tongue primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north and south in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania.
This is a list of ethnic groups in Ethiopia that are officially recognized by the government. It is a list taken from the 2007 Ethiopian National Census: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Population size and percentage of Ethiopia's total population according to the 1994 and 2007 censuses follows each entry.
According to the CIA, the Afar constitute under 5% of the nation's population. [42] They live in the Debubawi Keyih Bahri Region of Eritrea, as well as the Afar Region in Ethiopia, and Djibouti. They speak the Afar language as a mother tongue, and are predominantly Muslim. Afars in Eritrea number about 397,000 individuals, the smallest ...